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Mumford & Sons 'Ditmas' by Alex Southam

Cat Velez - 24th July 2015

Alex Southam's engrossing video for Mumford & Sons' Ditmas follows a native Cossack breaking a horse set against the gorgeous rural landscape.

Shot on location in the Ukraine, it's the first half of a two-part story – the second half will be released soon – and as Southam explains below their horse-breaker, Evgeniy Krutov, was most certainly the real deal.

ALEX SOUTHAM:

"The character in the video - who's name is Evgeniy - is a genuine Cossack raised within a Cossack community. Part of his work now is to break and train horses, so was the perfect subject for our film.

"Whilst the shoot was pretty brutal and unforgiving - particularly for our hero - we captured something really special, no more so than the moments in the final third of the video where our hero finally becomes one with the horse."

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Cat Velez - 24th July 2015

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Alex Southam
Producer
Mark Gibbons
Service Producer
Ole Yakoleva
Executive Producer
Jess Bell (uk) Darko Skulsky (kiev)
Production Manager
Olenka Avrahova (kiev)
1st AD
Simon Ashen

Camera

Director of Photography
Chris Clarke
Director of Photography
Matthew Emvin Taylor
Focus Puller
Ralph Messer (uk)
Camera Assistant
Darren Ladbury
Camera Assistant
Darren Ladbury

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Howard Davidson (uk)
Grip
Mark Morley

Art

Art Director
Guy Thompson

Casting

Lead actor
Evgeniy Krutov

Editorial

Editor
Chris Roebuck
Editing company
Cut+Run

Grading

Colourist
Houmam Abdallah
Colour grade company

Agent

Director's Representation
OB Management

Commission

Commissioner
Mike Mooney

Misc

Production Services
Radioaktive Film
DIT
Joe Jamieson
Art Department Assistant
Freya Cardiff

Other credits

Camera And Lights

Leo Sidor (Kiev)

Cat Velez - 24th July 2015

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