What starts as a study of lockdown boredom, via pop singer-songwriter Gracey's laptop, becomes something stranger and more significant in Aidan Zamiri's mesmerizing video for Empty Love.Shot over three days, between Gracey's bedroom in Brighton, and her guest vocalist Ruel's pad in Sydney, layers of visuals build within the familiar iconography of the Macbook screen. But a different cyber dimension begins to become apparent, where incomplete avatars of Gracey and Ruel exist. These clever VR and face filter FX are courtesy of VFX artist Dan Moller, and to find out more how the project came together, the BTS film edited by Ali Gill, explains more.
Promonews - 9th July 2020