videoFlyte 'Losing You' by Mark JenkinBAFTA-winning Mark Jenkin collaborates for the second time with Flyte, with the beautifully-crafted video for Losing You. Interweaving striking Bolex footage - which looks like it has been sourced directly from a movie from the 1940s or '50s - and degraded VHS performance shots, the concept is a multilayered narrative which unwraps across the course of the video. In the main narrative, a man is following a past love across fields and forests, trying to catch up but eventually realising they aren't in the same time or space. The enigmatic themes play out through clever editing and composition, matching eyelines and locations to blur the lines between what's real and what is not. And Jenkin's cinematography is stunning. The performance section by the band was shot socially-distanced over lockdown, distorted and manipulated to represent a home movie. Standing at different points on a staircase, the shots also interact with the main narrative, in a sequence of glances and snapshots of emotion, effortlessly coming together to form a complex whole.
Rob Ulitski - 30th July 2020