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Years & Years 'Desire' by Sing J Lee

David Knight - 17th Nov 2014

Sing J Lee explores the boundary between love and lust in a set of intriguing scenarios set in an apartment block, in his video for Years & Years' very catchy Desire.

But the real focus of the video is the band's charismatic frontman Olly Alexander, who plays both struggling writer in an apartment block and performs with the band. Perhaps not surprisingly, as Olly is also an actor, who's appeared in Misfits, the movie The Riot Club and upcoming musical feature God Help The Girl, written and directed by Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian.

SING J LEE:

"After getting hooked on the track, the boys sent a note through about the meaning of the song, a cyclical conflict of being a slave to desire and the blurring between the lines of lust and love.

"This in mind, I wanted to create something sensual and surreal, and it felt right that we should visit a strange world set within an apartment block and fleetingly peer into the lives of characters as they voyeuristically and hungrily fantasise over watching each other, with Olly playing the enigmatic raconteur."

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David Knight - 17th Nov 2014

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Sing J Lee
Producer
Nick Crossley
Production Company
Chief Productions
1st AD
Christopher Caddy

Camera

Director of Photography
Adam Scarth
Focus Puller
Esther Vardy
Camera Assistant
Carl Noble
Steadicam
Andrew Fletcher

Art

Art Director
Marc Ingham
Art Director
Claire Molloy

Wardrobe

Stylist
Coline Bach
Hair & Make-up
Roxanna Gillani

Editorial

Editor
Ian McLaughlin
Editor
Ryan Beck
Editing company
Final Cut

Grading

Colourist
Lewis Crossfield
Colour grade company

Agent

Director's Representation

Commission

Commissioner
Emily Tedrake
Label
Polydor

Misc

Production Assistant
Kate Brady
Production Assistant
Margot Douglas

Other credits

Lighting

Chris Sarginson, Howard Dean, James Braodfoot & Mike Hogan

Art Department

Hannah Williamson, Simon Stannard, Tom McGuire & Dan Gubber

Production Team

Matt Green, Tim Keegan, James McIntosh

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