An old man, played by acclaimed actor David Hayman, escapes from a care home to embark on a journey into his past in David Arthur's enchanting video for German alt-folk band Songraes.

in the video for Wind, Hayman's wheelchair-bound, dementia-suffering character sees a woman in a red coat, and shakily grabs a walking frame to take pursuit, heading for the beach. When he sees the woman again he ditches the frame, follwing her into town with ever more assured and lighter steps.

With it's grimly rainy seaside setting, the film moves subtlely towards fantasy, in keeping with the gentle jauntiness of the track, and the effect is all the more poignant and emotional as a result. It's a very rewarding viewing experience - particularly to enjoy the craggy presence and excellent performance of David Hayman.

"I’ve know the singer/songwriter Leo [Bruges] from the band for nearly 20 years and we’ve collaborated with each other in a variety of ways, often swapping hats," explains David Arthur. "He is better known as a cinematographer, and over the years I’ve edited footage he has shot. Recently he’s been a great supporter of mine on shorts I have directed. I love his notes on scripts and edits because they are merciless, yet always supportive and you need honest voices to make your work better. He sends me songs now and I can be brutal too, and that exchange is rare.

"When Leo invited me to pitch an idea for this video my father was very ill and I would listen to the song on the bus, on the way to see him. I was thinking about how my father's body was shutting down, how he used to be so active and there were times he would try to leave the house and go somewhere from his past, to see someone who had died even. So this idea came from that, exploring that headspace of a dementia sufferer on a journey, and what if they could return to the body of their past? To begin with this man confined to chair, build to him dancing, and then possibly end with him flying...

"I wrote the treatment with David Hayman in mind, sent it to him, and when he called me the next day to say he’d do it I was so surprised he ended up saying to me: 'lets talk once you’ve recovered'. We met in a chip shop cafe the following week and at 77, Davie is still so sharp. He sets the pace and you have to keep up with him. Davie really understands the minimalism of acting for the screen and I learned a lot working with him.

"We were heavily rained on both days of the shoot and by now the cinematographer Darren Hercher and I have a kind of documentary process where we embrace that stuff: like what would the character actually do in this scenario? He’d go find shelter, so let’s film him in a bus shelter for a bit and find something in that.

"Actress Elysia Welch, wearing my wife’s favourite red coat, had the song playing in her earphones and figured out some playful movements around the song’s motifs, and I just asked Davie to copy her. That was the most exciting material to film - just watching two great actors play like children on a rainy beach in Troon - and because of the weather the promenade was mostly deserted so that adds an atmosphere too maybe.

"To finish this, I called in a few favours with master colourist Colin Brown at BSQUARED, who really helped us shape the images in a way that embraced the Scottish greyness and Marcin Knyziak adding subtle sound effects. VFX wizard Sam Goodwin seamlessly put Elysia on the roof of the house at the end too!"