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Canty 'Follower' by Thomas Harrington-Rawle and Cathal McKeon

Rob Ulitski - 1st Sept 2023

Thomas Harrington-Rawle and Cathal McKeon direct a moving promo for East-London based singer and multi-instrumentalist Canty.

Spanning a range of stylistic vignettes, the video intercuts shots of Canty riding an escalator with footage of daily life, switching between each with flickering image overlays.

Building upon a distorted sense of place and time, the video mixes performance footage with surveillance style shots, following the artist around the city landscapes.

"I've been friends with James (Canty) for a while now and we've been working on a few videos together... he's one of the few artists I've met that's genuinely interested in finding the truth of experience in their art, it's always a pleasure to collaborate together," says Harrington-Rawle.

"We actually also used loads of scans of James's visual art on top of the actual video to create flickering overlays, I think those are my favourite moments in the video, that and the red bit!”

Rob Ulitski - 1st Sept 2023

Tags

  • Director's notes
  • Performance
  • Surveillance
  • Escalator
  • Footage
  • Landscape
  • Overlay

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Thomas Harrington-rawle
Director
Cathal McKeon
Producer
Thomas Harrington-rawle

Art

Drawings By James Canty

Wardrobe

Make-up
Douglas Dare

Commission

Commissioner
Nigel Adams
Label
Full Time Hobby

Rob Ulitski - 1st Sept 2023

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