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Palace 'Goodnight, Farewell' by Adrian Lee, Leo Wyndham

Rob Ulitski - 19th Aug 2024

Adrian Lee and Palace frontman Leo Wyndham co-direct a powerful promo for Goodnight, Farewell, inspired by a heartbreaking event. 

The video takes an existential approach to the themes of new album Ultrasound, which revolve around loss, grievance and acceptance. 

Balancing a sense of abstract surrealism with emotional performances, the video cuts between stock footage and live action to visualise the lyrics of the track, in a tender yet cinematic way. Wyndham's own vocal performance of Goodnight, Farewell in striking exterior locations is counterpointed by a dramatic element with a woman (played by Clara Rugaard) in a dark room, watching in anguish at images of a lost child.

Leo Wyndham explains, after his partner suffered a late miscarriage, that "I felt a hollowness and emptiness for a long time when it happened." The film, combining a perspective that's both intimate and universal, aims to reflect that difficult period, and coming through it. 

“It’s saying goodbye to this life-changing year, saying goodbye to former versions of ourselves and what would have been a child as well. It's that transcendence of suddenly discovering that we can move forward into something that feels lighter and optimistic."

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Rob Ulitski - 19th Aug 2024

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Leo Wyndham
Director
Adrian Lee
Producer
Adrian Lee
Production Company
Executive Producer
Leo Wyndham
Executive Producer
Adrian Lee
1st AD
Will Pentecost Daley
Additional Footage
Serena Ferrari
Photography
Callum Baker
Runner/BTS Video
Zac Norman

Camera

Director of Photography
Vince Lee
Focus Puller
Thomas Foster
Camera Operator
Bill Merner
Camera Trainee
Olivia Prentegast
Underwater Cam Op
Nick Winchester

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Salvador Fitzgerald-lewis
Gaffer
Tobias May
Spark
Romy Roulin

Wardrobe

Make-up
Emilie Louizedes

Casting

Lead actor
Clara Rugaard

Editorial

Editor
Yurina Okamoto

Grading

Colour Producer
George Blomiley
Colourist
Andi Chu
Colour grade company

Commission

Commissioner
Lois Freedman
Label
Fiction Records

Rob Ulitski - 19th Aug 2024

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