The Smile 'Free In The Knowledge' by Leo Leigh
David Knight - 29th Apr 2022
Leo Leigh's debut video, for Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's new project The Smile, is a singularly intense experience. Leigh more or less dispenses with the causes of a trauma to confront the viewer with the harrowing results. You can only watch and wonder why - while listening to the altogether more gentle Free In The Knowledge.
There are a couple of remarkable performances in the video, demonstrating distress and anguish in such visceral ways that it's hard not to think that some genuinely bad stuff happened just prior to when the camera started to roll.
Halfway through, there are glimpses of exposition, snatches of other characters, and a ritualistic ceremony, suggestng the power dynamic of this haggard forest tribe. But it's those first two minutes that leave the most powerful impression.
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Leo Leigh
- Producer
- Maddy Perkins
- Executive Producer
- Maëva Demurger
- 1st AD
- Clara Paris
- Production Manager
- Jack Stacey
- Production Assistant
- Meredith Bratton, Chelia Batkin
- Creative Director's Assistant
- Skyla Van Der Pols
- On Set Director's Assistant
- Arlo O’Callaghan
- 2nd AD
- Charlotte Miller
- Runner
- Archie Enfield
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Olan Collardy
- Focus Puller
- Rupert Hornstein
- Film Stock
- K
- 2nd AC
- Kairo Jones
- Camera trainee
- James Groves
- Bolex Camera Op
- Lloyd Cook
- Stills Photographer
- Ned Botwood
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Krunel Saadrani
Art
- Production designer
- Lucie Red
- Art Director
- Abi Ford
- Art Dept Asst
- David Ashby
- Art Dept Asst
- Molly Martinez Hackney
Wardrobe
- Hair & Make-up
- Natasha Lawes
- Wardrobe
- Holly Rebecca
- Costume Asst
- Anna Zamora, Rachel Owen
- HMU Asst
- Anya McDevitt
Choreography
- Dance Choreographer
- Felix Denton
Casting
- CAST
- Paul Hilton, Paraic Morrissey, Bryony Miller, Daryl "Jon" Hembrough, James Asare, Milly Cope, Natasha Livingstonel, Michael Anthony Hyman, Steven Hanley, Tirimisyu Raheem
- Alex Delis, Freya Warsi, Michael Morrissey, Olly Simmons
Editorial
- Editor
- Dave Davis
- Editing company
- TE
Grading
- Colourist
- Simone Grattarola
- Colour grade company
- Time Based Arts
Agent
- Director's Representation
- AR
Commission
- Commissioner
- SW
Other credits
SFX & Fire officer
Steve Hunt, Harry Woodvyine
H&S / Medic
Karl Omer
Special thanks
Panavision
SHL Lighting
Southwood Farm
David Knight - 29th Apr 2022