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Tommy Cash 'Racked' by Anna Himma

Rob Ulitski - 14th May 2021

Anna Himma directs a marvellous medieval fantasy for Tommy Cash. 

Featuring birds with human face torsos, dancing knights and full scale fight scenes - and that's just the start of it - the video for Racked fits perfectly within Cash's surreal, absurdist world, and is quite possibly the most uncomfortably fun three and a half minutes you will have this week.

It's a triumph of weirdness, brought together by frequent collaborator Himma's off-the-wall creativity - she won an UKMVA last year for her brilliant art direction of the video for Cash's Sdubid - DoP  Jurģis Kmins' polished cinematography, and of course, Cash's over the top performance - culminating in a dance sequence worthy of a South Korean boyband in full medieval regalia.

“This video right here didn’t want to come alive," says Tommy Cash. "We tried to come up with a right concept for it over a year. There have been 5-6 fully written different ideas, and some of them even with drawn moodboards for every shot - but COVID or something else was always standing in our way…

"Until one beautiful day this medieval vision came to us which was actually the hardest to make out of them all. Anna Himma just shot it out of this world…”

Rob Ulitski - 14th May 2021

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  • Pick of the Day
  • Rap
  • Performance
  • Medieval
  • Knight
  • Surreal
  • Absurd

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Anna Himma
Producer
Johanna Trass
Producer
Normunds Rumba
Production Company
Allfilm, Wmw, Bbrental
1st AD
Matilde Matvere

Camera

Director of Photography
Jurģis Kmins
Focus Puller
Jānis Reinfelds
2nd AC
Rinalds Zelts

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Aleksandrs Cerkasins

Art

Art Director
Kristina Lõuk

Wardrobe

Wardrobe
Mareunrol's
Make-up
Merlit Veldi

Editorial

Editor
Emeri Abel

Grading

Colourist
Dima Litvinov

Rob Ulitski - 14th May 2021

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