Charles Gall directs a heartfelt labour of love for Scottish indie band The Snuts featuring frontman Jack Cochrane with scarecrows, bees and children waving flags in a deserted dreamscape. 

Filmed at Tentsmuir Beach on the east coast of Scotland and rural Cambridgeshire, the video for Summer Rain - the band's return to action since their 2024 album Millenials - is a gently surreal daydream, switching between abstract, pastel-hued shots and frantic monochrome. And Cochrane's compelling performance is the thread that holds the visual tapestry together. 

"Jack (the lead singer) brought me this idea built around fear, bees, scarecrows, and the need to run — run through something, not away from it," explains Gall. "The whole track felt like catharsis. Working through a shitty chapter and coming out the other side.

"So we built these haunting figures, then let kids dismantle them. Turning fear into flags - into something hopeful. A symbol of learning, perseverance, and carrying what you’ve been through forward.

"The kids were all cast locally by me in my village and their first time in front of the camera. I directed, produced, self shot and edited this with help of Tom Kitto operating the running scenes on a gimbal. The whole thing was shot on a simple FX3 rig.

"We shot in an ancient Scottish woodland and nearby beach, a bee keepers in Dumfermline and the flag scenes shot by the river Cam five miles north of Cambridge."