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
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Leo Wyndham
- Director
- Adrian Lee
- Producer
- Adrian Lee
- Production Company
- AF
- 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
- EC
Commission
- Commissioner
- Lois Freedman
- Label
- Fiction Records
Rob Ulitski - 19th Aug 2024