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Calista Kazuko 'Benzo Belle' by Thomas James Linton & Philip Reinking

Rob Ulitski - 14th Oct 2020

Roll up, roll up - the circus has come to town! Thomas James Linton and Philip Reinking invite you into a weird and wonderful world, in their video for Calista Kazuko. 

Calista plays ringmistress to tell the story of our heroine, Benzo Belle, and the circus her life has become.

Depreciated in a loveless marriage, a monotonous carousel existence, delusional and exhausted, self-medicating to numb the pain. Will she escape this Stepford Wife-like prison and live out her fantasies to run away with the circus?

The ambitious video has a highly stylised and fantasy-based aesthetic, incorporating a variety of otherworldly set pieces. Like a fairytale unfolding in an existential, Twilight Zone reality, the feeling of entrapment is bubbling under the surface in every scene, aided by Reinking's dreamlike cinematography and Linton's eye for performance. 

Rob Ulitski - 14th Oct 2020

Tags

  • Performance
  • Surreal
  • Alternative
  • Indie
  • Circus
  • Performer
  • Twilight Zone
  • Stepford Wives

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Thomas James Linton
Director
Producer
Thomas James Linton
Producer
Producer
Calista Georget
Executive Producer
Thomas Linton / Philip Reinking / Calista Georget
1st AD
Alena Shen

Camera

Director of Photography

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Małgorzata Maria Prońko

Art

Art Director
Alena Shen

Wardrobe

Hair & Make-up
Giusi Belmonte
Hair & Make-up
Fanny Burgos
Wardrobe
George Thompson

Grading

Colourist
Rosie Badder

Commission

Commissioner
Calista Georget
Label
Ichi Ni Records

Other credits

2nd Camera

Małgorzata Maria Prońko

Cast

Calista Kazuko, Gareth Jones, Charlie Bicknell, Jamie Double, Maymie Alford

Birdy Ring & Jewellery

Velvet Eccentric

Many Thanks

National Theatre Costume Department

Rob Ulitski - 14th Oct 2020

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