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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Production/Creative
- Director
 - LH
 - Producer
 - Giorgia Bortali
 - Production Company
 - Tussle
 
Camera
- Director of Photography
 - Corey Milo
 - Focus Puller
 - Harry Beach
 
Wardrobe
- Hair
 - Hairdome Deptford
 - Dashing Tweeds
 
Casting
- Martha Herniman, Annette Thomas, Quentin Gichuru
 
Editorial
- Editor
 - LH
 
Grading
- Colourist
 - Corey Milo
 
Promonews - 12th June 2025