Wolf Alice 'Blue Weekend' by Jordan Hemingway
Rob Ulitski - 11th June 2021
Jordan Hemingway directs a mesmerising visual film for Wolf Alice's new album Blue Weekend.
A night out in London - we’ve all had one of those. Trying to work through heartbreak and friendships made and lost, meeting characters good and bad, funny and tragic. A fight here, an embrace there. Singing in toilets, bidding farewell to a lover at a bus stop, before riding home with your mates singing at the top of your voice, until you’re alone again, but not lonely.
You feel love, wrapped in the memories of the mad night that lays behind.
Jordan Hemingway’s rendering of such a night, of course, takes twists and turns and exaggerates, making every mundane moment into something magically grotesque. Characters unhinged, colours bursting. Chaos reigns supreme as Wolf Alice’s visual album unfolds, with the music serving as a guide to the imagery, the emotional clock that ticks away to the early hours of the morning.
The project is an absolute tour de force, interweaving Hemingway's hallucinatory vision and a series of breathtaking performances, delivered in grungy locations across the city.
Unexpected, daring and vibrant, the abstract imagery and colour-drenched set pieces are elevated by DoP Molly Manning Walker's dazzling cinematography, and a true marriage of craft from every member of the production team.
Watch the trailer for the film above, and of course, catch several of the individual videos on Wolf Alice's YouTube channel.
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Jordan Hemingway
- Producer
- Ella Girardot
- Production Company
- AF
- Executive Producer
- Maurizio Von Trapp
- Production Manager
- Kavita Babbar
- 1st AD
- Irene Maffei
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Molly Manning Walker
- Focus Puller
- Toby Mckay
- 2nd AC
- Sam Taylor
- Film Scanning
- DO
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Bill Rae Smith
Art
- Art Director
- Luke Moran Morris
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Erika Freedman
- Hair
- Esme Horn
- Make-up
- Jenny Glynn
- Wardrobe
- Nick Royal
Editorial
- Editor
- Louis Hvejsel Bork
Grading
- Colourist
- Joseph Bicknell
- Colour grade company
- Company 3
VFX
- Post Producer
- Anna Kelman
Other credits
Cast
Peter Liddell, Maddie Shenai, Salome Omanya, Justin Wright, Genie Crystal, Josh Quinton, Jessamine Bliss Bell, Lee Goulding, Roy Beck, Roger Beck, Beryl Nesbitt, Sonja Doubleday, Winston Hayles, John Merrit, Marta Casanova, Aimee Gillingwater, Savanna Keenan, Natalie Lempah, Hermione Callow, Phillipa James, Ian Mccurrah, Jamal Franklin, Joshua Walker, Dale James, Princess Julia, Justin John Hills
Rob Ulitski - 11th June 2021