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Tommy Holohan 'Show Me The Sky' by Will Wightman

David Knight - 26th Nov 2024

Will Wightman's debut music video is finally here and its a jawdropper. It's an outrageous, near-the-knuckle comedy-horror for Irish DJ-producer Tommy Holohan which preys on the sum of our worst, most irrational fears. 

Recovering obsessive-compulsive Jared is preparing for a date, when he's aware of another presence in his room - a persistently buzzing fly. As Holohan's banging rave track Show Me The Sky kicks in, Jared suffers an OCD relapse, and battle is joined. But there's only ever going to be one winner.

Wightman has mined some primordial fears about bodily invasion, and his own experience of the condition of OCD, to deliver a no-holds-barred, anarchic comedy - a nightmarishly cruel version of the climactic scene in Ratatouille, as the sadistic Fly ruthlessly exploits Jared's vulnerabilities to become his gleeful puppet-master.

From the excellent performances (Harrison Charles as Jared, George Osman as The Fly), to the zany camerawork, a practical build and old school VFX, plus medical diagrams dotted through a breakneck edit by Nick Armstrong, this is a breathtaking riot of cartoon-style mayhem. 

But it's also not for the squeamish or fainthearted. Will Wightman has stepped into the territory of wickedly gross-out cartoonish humour that was more common in dance music videos a few years ago - quite a brave thing to do in these days - and arguably gone even further.

His first pop video is not only very funny, it's going to stay in your head a long time.

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  • Comedy
  • Narrative
  • Pick of the Day
  • Dance
  • Rave
  • Fly
  • OCD

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Will Wightman
Producer
Alexander Handschuh
Head Of Production
Alex Halley
Production Company
Executive Producer
Josef Byrne
Production Manager
Charlie Herbert
PA
Calum O'Toole
Runner
Sasha Cussens

Camera

Director of Photography
Jack Hamilton
Focus Puller
Conor Maloney Hill
Camera Trainee
Kaia Bashir
Sound Recordist
Jacapo Scutti

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Aldo Camilleri
Spark
Kamau Kelly

Art

Production designer
Sehar Kidwai
Props Assistant
Violette Delaet, Ella Kean

Wardrobe

Costume designer
Lucy James

Casting

Lead actor
Harrison Charles
Fly
George Osman
Jared
Harrison Charles
Mum
Claire Kean

Animation

Compositors
John Malcom Moore, Gustaf Georg Lindström, Stephen McNally, William Kay
TItle Animator: Jack Brown

Editorial

Editor
Nick Armstrong
Editing company
TenThree
Edit Producer
Rachel Goodger
Sound
Strings & Tins
Sound design
Jim Stewart

Grading

Colourist
Alex Gregory
Colour Producer
Charlie Morris

VFX

VFX Company
1920
Post production company
1920 Senior Producer
Louise Cherry
1920 Production Co-ordinator
Lena Almeida
1920 Compositors
Adam McHale, Klaudia Skalska

Misc

Storyboardist
Joe Totti
Prosthetics
Sadhbh Maguire
Prop Maker
Lani Hernandez-David
Studio
Clapham Road Studios

Other credits

Concept Artist

Darius Bristow

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