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Joel Culpepper 'Look For The Silver Lining' by Louis Hemming-Lowe

Promonews - 12th June 2025

Louis Hemming-Lowe combines a striking performance with cinematic ambition in his video for R&B singer Joel Culpepper's interpretation of Look For The Silver Lining - a track from Blue Note Records' project Chet Baker Reimagined.

Hemming-Lowe's film juxtaposes a powerful performance by Culpepper - whilst standing barechested, on top of a hut on the summit of a hill - with his dreamlike journey through a sprawling, untamed landscape in the backseat of a car. As the lyrics encourage the listener to 'look for the silver lining' and 'try to find the sunny side of life', the narrative captures a soulful inner pilgrimage.

The singer passes through symbolic vignettes: adolescent nuns smoking under a tree evoke lost innocence and quiet rebellion; a younger version of himself dressed in school uniform beside a No Swimming' sign, touching on themes of assimilation and exclusion. A vision of his mother, sitting next to him in the car, becomes an emotional anchor - an embodiment of the 'silver lining' he’s moving toward.

The film's dual structure - soaring performance and meditative odyssey - mirrors the song’s core message: that joy and sorrow, past and present, often coexist. And through it all, there's a quiet insistence on hope, beauty, and transcendence.

Promonews - 12th June 2025

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Director
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Giorgia Bortali
Production Company
Tussle

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Director of Photography
Corey Milo
Focus Puller
Harry Beach

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Hairdome Deptford
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Martha Herniman, Annette Thomas, Quentin Gichuru

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Corey Milo

Promonews - 12th June 2025

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