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Wesley Joseph 'If Time Could Talk' by Wesley Joseph

Promonews - 24th Nov 2025

Singer-songwriter, producer and director Wesley Joseph returns with a comeback single and accompanying visual that adds a sleek intensity to the craft and surreal invention that has marked his work to date.

Shadowy, concrete club spaces and mirrored rooms twist and warp as Wesley encounters a striking female amid a group of pole dancers in the video for If Time Could Talk. And it builds to an impressive, fiery climax.

Filmed in Paris, and produced by Stink France (with help from film fund CNC), Joseph's video for If Time Could Talk is riveting in terms of the imagery he creates and the feeling it evokes - which is something he certainly intended to achieve, from hearing how he describes the track.

"It started as a much faster dance instrumental but one night, weeks after the session, I slowed it down and found all this space in the music where the feeling and texture became clear - electric, nostalgic, twisted, and aching all at once,” he explains.

"Ultimately the song is about the pull of a lost connection, desire, regret and romanticising the past - some of the songs I write have a really specific story and others are a feeling dramatised into a scene and If Time Could Talk feels more like that - emotional honesty, immediacy and melancholy all wrapped into an elated escape.”

 

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Wesley Joseph
Producer
Marie Fessol
Production Company
Executive Producer
Dom Mckiernan
Executive Producer
Jerome Denis
Executive Producer
Lola Idounda
1st AD
Ambre Rambaud
Head of Production
Clémentine Tatin
Production Assistant
Damien Michot

Camera

Director of Photography
Hugo Ghnassia
1st AC
Paul Rasmussen
2nd Camera Assistant
Quentin Duvillier
3rd Camera Assistant
Ornella Marraccini
Steadicamer
Stefano Forlini

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Toma Bayle
Spark
Marie Déniel, Clément Jacquet, Maxence De la Haye, Nicolas Chabod
Desk Op
Mélio Pessant
Key Grip
Dino Fey
Grip
Gwendal Joudiou, Louka Jouet, Lucille Leroy

Art

Production designer
Anaïs Profit
Set Assistants
Alexis Gougha, Sarah Guelzec, Enzo Sabino, Lorene Dengoyan

Wardrobe

Stylist
Zahra Asmail
Hair
Salomé Narolles
Make-up
Ines Verbe
Stylist Agent
Chris Roger at Vision
Stylist Assistants
Liv Lodge, Aveynet Bezo, Grace Libi
Make Up SFX
Pauline Chambon
MUA
Méline Bordier
Wesley Joseph’s Hair
Kaïzy

Choreography

Choreographer
Sophie Tracy May

Casting

Lead actor
Esther Kenake
Pole Dancer
LA
Pole Dancer
Aoki
Pole Dancer
Sam
Pole Dancer
Gina
Dancer
Ayaba Amavi
Dancer
Imane Kamali
Vampire
Urumi
Bouncer
Bafode Guirassy
Casting
Marie Descottes and Yann Bella Ola

Editorial

Editor
Sam Allen
Editing company
Work Editorial
Post Producer
Frankie Elster

Grading

Colourist
Alex O’Brien
Colour grade company
Okay Studio
Colour and VFX Producer
Athene Xenia Aristocleous, Alex Blowers

VFX

VFX Supervisor
Ilyès Nezzari
VFX Company
Okay Studio
VFX Lead
Faris Hallaq
VFX Artist
Mark Purser
Additional CG Studio
Spirit View
Head of Studio
Dmitrii Mitrofanov
2D Composer
Maxim Kolesnikov

Commission

Label
Secretly Canadian
Management
Chloé Azodanloo + Mike Harounoff at Transgressive

Misc

SFX Pyro Technician
Romain Thromat at La Compagnie 85

Other credits

Thanks

Sylvain Poche (Studio Diamond SP), La Vache Noire, RVZ, BBCAR, Transperfect, Apicorp, Corentin Williams and Rob Akin.

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