@jaramoravec

Then there was the dance. The song runs in an unusual slow rhythm, far from your usual Saturday night disco boogie so the dancers sometimes struggled to find the right groove. But I always wanted to embrace the imperfections and clumsiness and distance from the glossiness of the music video world. It was all about there and then (like in Beau Travail’s famous title sequence).  Filip and me considered making the final chorus of the video more stylised with more expressive lighting and angles but every time we tried, it felt like a cheap shot. Once we set out for a tripod and fluorescent lighting, we could not go back.  I wanted the very final dance sequence to be really visceral, almost transcendental to give the story some arc. I remembered the final sequence from Shame where Michael Fassbender got lost in one long beautiful take. I was sure it’s going to be the lead fisherman Zhenia with his dramatic face and flamboyance. But dancing on the deck was not very easy with lots of diesel fumes, wind and noise. The PA also broke down so in fact the dancers on the boat danced without any music whatsoever. I think that moment with Zhenia fleeted away as we were too busy making things work. At the end it was @djamilitta who was able to let loose. She struggled with her nerves for a while and then had a big shot of vodka and then completely transformed herself and showed the pain and the beauty.