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Hercules & Love Affair 'Omnion' by Crowns & Owls

David Knight - 18th July 2017

Crowns & Owls, in their first music video for ages, have returned with an unsettling curiosity for Hercules & Love Affair's Omnion.

A lone robed figure repeatedly walks up a staircase, on a pilgrimage in which she encounters different scenarios involving other pilgrims - and then finally passes through a watery barrier to be entirely transformed.

Crowns & Owls - that's Rory Martinez, Tom Harrison and James Alexander Adair - explain the ideas about the video below. And with its spiritual, quasi-religious overtones, this is absorbing work. It's also distinguished by excellent minimalist-theatrical production design, by James Hamilton at Made London and Max Lincoln, rarely found in music videos these days.

CROWN & OWLS:

"The Omnion video is an exploration of the nuances of gender and sexuality. A story of rebirth, the video follows a lone figure in red on an ascending pilgrimage up a seemingly infinite stair. Perspective play, scale and negative space is used to reflect the complexity of identity.

"Under dappled light our character is guided by descending children; serenely vacant and dripping with water. The stairs open to small rooms, each one a dreamlike homage to the childhood experiences of Andy Butler. 

"The closing sequence shows the woman arriving at the summit of the stairs, where a surreal pool cleanses her of the anxieties of adulthood, rebirthing her as a little boy, blessing her with blissful juvenile nativity."

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Crowns & Owls
Producer
Luke Plaister
Production Company
Executive Producer
Emily Rudge
1st AD
Jack Meredith

Camera

Focus Puller
Adam Feeney
2nd AC
Mike Kinsella

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Nathan Matthews
Grip
Neil Blakesley

Art

Production designer
James Hamilton
Art Director
Max Lincoln

Wardrobe

Stylist
Anna Pesonen
Hair
Maarit Niemala
Make-up
Elias Hove

Grading

Colourist
Jonny Tully

VFX

VFX
Rory Whittle
Post production company
Smoke & Mirrors
Post Producer
Hannah Whitehill
Post Producer
Andrew Salem

Commission

Commissioner
John Hassay

Other credits

Grip Assistant

Alfie Wentzel

DMX

Onkar Narang

Art Standby

Elena Horn

Carpenter

Charlie Burns, Tom Robinson, Greg Simpson

Rigger

Steve Daley, Rhys Grinter

Scenic Painter

Aimee Paton

David Knight - 18th July 2017

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