Britt Lower - the rebellious, enigmatic Helly in Apple's TV drama Severance - takes on another challenging role in Allie Avital's video for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Lower plays a wife who is constrained by her sterile homelife and monotonous relationship with an uncommunicative husband. But then she sees a blue bird in a tree outside the perfect home - lipsyncing to the song Wolf. And that sparks the ravenous beast inside her. 

She walks out of the house and into the wilderness on her doorstep. She loses her demure facade, and she embraces nature. Lower goes feral in the forest, absorbing all its elements in a visceral way. In doing so, she becomes dishevelled, bloodied - but undeterred.

Eventually she stumbles into a local bar - where in a Lynchian backroom, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs beckons her inside, and to the end-point of her journey. Her return to her house follows, and an encounter with her husband which wordlessly resets the parameters of their relationship.

"Wolf has so much narrative built into the lyrics, and it was such a dream to delve into these themes of hunger, connection, and wildness," says Avital. "Britt Lower and I used a movement-based technique to play with the nuances of this character as she seeks various forms of connection and moves from feeling trapped to wild to rediscovering a new form of intimacy with her husband.

"As a director, it’s rare to find such open minded artists like Karen, Nick, and Brian and I’m so grateful they put so much trust in our creative process."