Empara Mi 'WYGD' by Filmawi
Rob Ulitski - 5th Dec 2019
Saturated red lighting and a haunting cacophony of voices throw us straight into Filmawi's new visual for Empara Mi, in which the singer repeatedly faces violent death - but then returns to fight another day.
Veering from visceral, punishing realism to dreamlike sequences where she floats through space, Empara fights back from being shot, drowned and suffocated like a like a video game character re-emerging from the last save checkpoint. It's all about her inner strength in the video for WYGD, as the artist encompasses what it means to be a survivor.
The contrast of heavily saturated primary colours represents the instinctual and primal battle of life versus death - even in the face of certain destruction.
FILMAWI:
"I wanted the video to be a metaphor for the saying ‘knock me down nine times, but I get up ten’.
"We wanted to be relatively Method with it, because we wanted it to feel real and a bit shocking so people could feel the sentiment of the song, which is of both fear and strength.
"The strength in this video comes from knowing you can survive anything that is thrown at you, that’s what I want to leave people with, a little bit of hope."
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Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Filmawi
- Producer
- Joseph J Goldman
- Production Company
- C
- Executive Producer
- Kiran Mandla
Camera
- Director of Photography
- JH
- Focus Puller
- Rupert Hornstein
- Film Lab
- CD
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Vini Curtis
- Gaffer
- Rhys Gray
Art
- Art Director
- Ash Halliburton
Editorial
- Editor
- Ed Hanbury
- Editing company
- The Mill
Grading
- Colourist
- Alex Gregory
- Colour grade company
- The Mill
VFX
Misc
- Clapper Loader
- Tom Carpenter
Other credits
Spark
Jack Hamilton, Jamie Montgomery
Rigger
Max Morley
SFX Makeup
Diana Bruton
Art Assistant
Francesca Nwokeocha
Runners
Tara Sadeghi, Hugo Holford
BTS
Jorge Higgins
Animal Handler
Trevor Smith
Rob Ulitski - 5th Dec 2019