Rag’n’Bone Man sets off on a quest to find love - on his push-bike - in the charming and quirky video by directing duo Broken Antenna, collaborating with fellow director Tim Nathan.The video for Time To Love - the British soul singer's first collaboration with acclaimed producer Danger Mouse - follows a time-honoured narrative form - arguably the oldest of them all. Rag'n'Bone Man (aka Rory Graham) pursues his personal Iliad, where he enjoys a series of adventures, encountering a range of eccentric characters in the process. Rory takes his cue from a Tarot-reading mystic, before he sets off on his bike, following a path set out by hand-drawn map through the sun-kissed flatlands of Kent's Romney Marshes, where he meets hitchhikers, fire dancers and night fisherman - and may have found a friend. Throughout Rag'n'Bone Man cuts through with arguably his most relatable performance yet in a video. He's thoughtful, inquisitive, more soulful than ever. And it comes with a sense of humour that's exemplified by his humble and functional mode of transport, the bicycle. That encourages his fruitful interaction with the rest of the world. It's the second time that Broken Antenna have worked with Rory, following his featured role on Jam Baxter's Mask - a Chinese restaurant-set gross-out comedy. This is altogether gentler, an encouraging sign of what's to come from the artist, and a demonstration of the virtues of directors teaming up to pool their ideas. That's what happened here, as Myles and Gustav of Broken Antenna explain:“We enjoy the collaborative process of working with other directors, as it's always fascinating to see the way that they work and how they engage with the ideas and production in a different way," they say. "We are good mates with Tim and he brought up the idea of collaborating on this job with Rory, as we'd worked with him before and we thought that it would be really interesting. "We all came up with the ideas together on what was a really fast-moving production. We teamed up with DoP Thom Neal, through whom we know Tim and producer Josh Hillman who we worked with on our previous video for Rory. It had a proper collective spirit. [We] Supported one another and split the video into different scenes which we developed individually and brought our ideas back to the group and reworked them together."It was great to work again with Rory and his team and hopefully we will all be doing more together again soon.”
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