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
Credits
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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