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Villagers 'Earthly Pleasures' by Tom Werber

David Knight - 9th Aug 2013

Very slowly, after about 25 years, taking the literal approach to directing music videos may be coming back into fashion. That's if Tom Werber's engrossingly surreal and ultimately chilling video for Villagers' Earthly Pleasures is anything to go by...

Villagers' Conor O'Brien sings of a man on a voyage of discovery, and Tom illustrates his fantastic journey from bathroom to battlefield to being balanced on the knee of a goddess – while in his Y-fronts. Here's inventive visual storytelling completely in tune with the songwriting - and there's a great performance by Jean Baptiste Fillon as the (very mortal) man.

Tom Werber: "It's an illustrative interpretation and it's been interesting to see people's reactions to that! It was a decision I made when I heard the song, which has a very strong story to it.

"I decided to treat the song as if it were a script. That's quite unusual for music videos - I certainly wouldn't do it for everything - but in this case I really like the result."

David Knight - 9th Aug 2013

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Tom Werber
Producer
Stephen Smith
Production Company
Smith & Werber

Camera

Director of Photography
Matthew Beecroft
1st AC
Thomas Nicholson
2nd AC
Ivor Churchill

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Neil Hawkins
Grip
Aaron Porter

Art

Art Director
Aurelie Taillefer

Wardrobe

Stylist
Tzarkusi
Wardrobe
Aurelie Taillefer
Make-up
Annie Tagge

Editorial

Editor
Smith & Werber

Grading

Colourist
Jean Paul Vial
Grading company
Clear Cut Pictures

Commission

Commissioner
John Moule
Label
Domino

Misc

Compositor
Ernest Dios
Compositor
Pau Viladot
DIT
Mark Yeshin

Other credits

Cast

Man

Jean Baptiste Fillon

Goddess

Shereen Russell

Catering

Barbara's Brazilian Kitchen

Camera

Movietech

Lighting

Filmplus

Studio

Soundstage Studios

Space images

courtesy of NASA.

Special thanks

Andy Cooper at Movietech, Ben West at Filmplus, Seb Barker, Paul Jibson

David Knight - 9th Aug 2013

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