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In the summer of 2016 a group of friends went on “residency” to a warehouse in the Gila desert in New Mexico for a month to try and make some art. Auden and Annelyse and I wanted to make a music video for what was to be - at that time - Annelyse’s new album.
There was an old airstream trailer behind the warehouse. We had programmable tripod head, an A7SII and a tiny digital projector. Somehow we decided these were the elements the video had to incorporate. There was a lot of negotiation to figure out what the the video was going to be about. Shooting a video with two directors - it turns out - is much easier than three. Whenever two people agreed on something the third wouldn’t. We all took turns being the odd man out.
The first task was to clean the trailer - the home of a few rodent families. I also remember that it took two tries to get the rise on the stop motion camera move right.
Auden and I built the “inside” of the projection machine that Annelyse’s character builds in the last week of residency, after she had already left.
It ended up being a slightly deadly choice because I built a bunch of stop motion props, which accompanied me on a move out of New York City upstate in 2018, and sat in a closet for over a year while I did other things.
From 2019 onward Auden and I would try and get together for a couple days each year to finish the music video finally finishing in early 2022. A little riff on Gondry in the desert. Fun, though probably not worth it having it hang over our heads for six years.