In the lastet project in a long-time collaboration Chris Turner - aka Favourite Colour: Black - directs a haunting promo for composer/performer Elizabeth Bernholtz - aka Gazelle Twin - assisted by photographer Teri Varhol. 

The video for Fear Keeps Us Alive harnesses the haunting, omnipresent qualities of CCTV, in a ghostly amalgam of DV and Hi-8 scenes. 

The cinematography creates a detached, coldly voyeuristic point of view, and shares scenes with upcoming supernatural short film Saint Maria’s Way, directed by Chris and written by Chelsea Kania. The film explores the same themes as Fear Keeps Us Alive, using CCTV to reconstruct the final journey of a missing woman.

“I love working with Elizabeth and Teri," Turner says. "We share so many of the same fascinations and obsessions, and this allows an honest and creative freedom to exist between us.

"We’re also all lovers of ageing, imperfect formats of photography and video. The visual and thematic elements of the song, the short film, and the album all seemed to fit perfectly together.”

“The fear in Fear Keeps Us Alive is a daily, constant, almost mundane common fear among women," explains Bernholz." I have often connected this lifelong feeling to the sense of a ghostly male presence that lurks in my dreams. Women are (and always have been) constantly haunted by the potential of being harmed."

She adds: "Chris, Teri and I share a passion for the weird and the uncanny. The film and images we’ve made together in various forms just wouldn’t have happened without their enthusiasm, generosity and genius skill.

"Fear Keeps Us Alive is another brilliant collaboration and has produced such a striking outcome that blends so many shared ideas and visions so naturally.”