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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David Knight - 26th Nov 2024
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Will Wightman
- Producer
- Alexander Handschuh
- Head Of Production
- Alex Halley
- Production Company
- B
- 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
- B
- 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
David Knight - 26th Nov 2024