Watch this Stan­ley Kubrick-inspired music video direct­ed by Alice Lowe

We’ve long been fans of Alice Lowe, the ace British actor, writer and film­mak­er known for the likes of Garth Merenghi’s Dark­place, Sight­seers and her 2016 direc­to­r­i­al debut Pre­venge. Now she’s reunit­ed with the band TOY­DRUM to direct a music video for their new sin­gle ​‘Void & Form (Trentemøller Remix)’, fea­tur­ing Joel Wells on vocal.

It sees The Witch and Games of Thrones star Kate Dick­ie trapped in a neon night­mare which plays out over sev­en min­utes of mind-melt­ing luna­cy. The video was shot on a tiny 8ft by 4ft set, a spe­cial­ly designed ​‘giant kalei­do­scop­ic’ into which visu­al effects were then pro­ject­ed. No com­put­er effects were involved – instead the effects were gen­er­at­ed using ink, water, bitu­men, nail var­nish, milk and food colour­ing. The shoot took place in the TOYDRUM’s Brighton studio.

A skele­ton crew were brought on board includ­ing Pre­venge DoP Ryan Eddle­ston. Inspired by the icon­ic ​‘star gate sequence’ from Stan­ley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the video por­trays the emo­tions of a seem­ing astro­naut as she sees her life flash before her eyes and ​‘meets God’… and herself.

Speak­ing about the project, Lowe had this to say: ​“It was my priv­i­lege to be work­ing with Toy­Drum again, two of the most inno­v­a­tive musi­cal vision­ar­ies around! This track just bowled me over, so I real­ly enjoyed being able to run riot with the images it con­jured up. Pablo and James work in such a cre­ative organ­ic way, and I think the way we made this video reflects that. It was also great to coop Kate Dick­ie up in a box and watch her work some magic.”

‘Void & Form (Trentemøller Remix)’ is cut from TOYDRUM’s most recent album ​‘My Eye On You’, avail­able now via Skint / Bmg. The Pre­venge sound­track is avail­able now through Inva­da Records. Alice Lowe is cur­rent­ly work­ing on her sec­ond fea­ture Timestalk­er with West­ern Edge Pictures.

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