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Swim Deep 'Sail Away, Say Goodbye' by Georgina Cammalleri

Rob Ulitski - 22nd Aug 2019

Director Georgina Cammalleri reunites with Swim Deep, following her music video for To Feel Good earlier this year. Sail Away, Say Goodbye carries all of the Birmingham band’s psychedelic-tinged dream pop, and tells a story of grief that is very personal to lead singer Austin Williams – the song is about the loss of his grandmother after her battle with dementia.

We find the band on board a boat that’s lost and going nowhere. Their fortunes take a turn for the worse when a crack in the boat lets water in and sends the boys into the ocean. However, instead of a watery demise, the band find something very different lurking beneath the surface. Cammalleri brings an element of magical realism to the video, giving this sad story a transformative feeling and a sense of hope.

“In the face of a desperate situation I wanted to use magical realism to turn the fate of the band around and inject a sense of hope," she says. "Sometimes things arise in life in a way that initially appear as a threat, but ultimately help us to move forward and survive.”

The shoot took place over two days. The team purchased a rowing boat and transported it to Ramsgate, where filming took place from the fishing vessel Sea Searcher, out in the middle of the North Sea. The underwater material was filmed in an underwater tank in Croydon.

Rob Ulitski - 22nd Aug 2019

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  • Alternative, Indie Rock

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Georgina Cammalleri
Producer
Oskar Pimlott
Production Company
Zebrafish Media
1st AD
Bruno Chiecco

Camera

Director of Photography
Lorenzo Levrini
Focus Puller
Bart Bazaz
Focus Puller
Lucas Campain

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Helio Ribeiro 

Art

Art Director
Kat Black

Editorial

Editor
Matthew Prickett
Editing company
Cut+Run

Grading

Colourist
Alex Gregory
Colour grade company
The Mill

VFX

VFX
Jon Pugh

Commission

Label
Cooking Vinyl

Other credits

Underwater Operator

Sergio Cesari

3rd AD

Jens Nielsen

Underwater Gaffer

Slavek Szymczyk

Spark

George Weight

Underwater AC

Sam Padget

Safety Diver

Piotr Liwa

Drone Op

Alisdair Livingstone

VFX

Jon Pugh

Art Assistant

Izzy Taylor

Boat Captain

Tony (Sea Searcher)

Pumping Mechanism

Nick Alexander

Production Assistant

Nicole Harley

Runner

Adam Hagerty

BTS

Catarina Rodrigues

Stills

Karen Lo

Band Manager

Mike Watson

Special Thanks

Parmida Saga

Underwater Tank

Under The Water Media

Camera And Lighting Equipment

Focus 24

Nauticam Hire

Waterproof Media

Rob Ulitski - 22nd Aug 2019

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