Faroese\/British\/Danish musicvideo (2015)<\/p>\n
A musicvideo from the album \u2018Story Music\u2019 released in 2013 from Arlo & Betty Ltd.<\/p>\n
As an artpiece it was selected at a censored exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark 2014 at \u2018Kunstnernes Efter\u00e5rsudstilling\u2019 hosted at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. And it\u2019s first international censored exhibition was in Berlin, Germany 2016 at Galleri Heike Arndt DK at \u2018Fresh Legs 2016\u2019.<\/p>\n
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It was also used as x-mas card in 2014, sent to all partners and friends to the interactive project surrounding the album \u2018Story Music\u2019.<\/p>\n
First public presentation was made in partnership with renowned Danish Music and Filmmagazines Ekko and Gaffa in december 2015 as an exclusive deal. It reached an alltime high in top100 and was placed as the sixth most seen musicvideo on the Ekko Shortlist. Published shortly afterwards worldwide via Youtube on Arlo & Betty Records\u2019 channel.<\/p>\n
It has been shortlisted at the Nordic Music Video Awards 2016.<\/p>\n
The listing on imdb can be found here.<\/p>\n
The article in Gaffa can be found here.<\/p>\n
The musicvideo as it appears in Ekko Filmmagazines Shortlist<\/p>\n
Link to the musicvideo from the official channel for Teitur on Youtube; Arlo and Betty.<\/p>\n
Synopsis<\/p>\n
\u201cIF YOU WAIT\u201d is a doll animation with both live pictures and stop motion. The Animation is made for the song \u201cIf you Wait\u201d performed by Teitur and composed by Teitur Lassen.<\/p>\n
The story is about the feeling of \u201cpossessing something bigger\u201d you can \u0301t get out. How the desire to get it out can weigh you down and make you unable to act. Continuing in the hope that something wonderful will occur, combined with a melancholy doubt as to whether you will succeed.<\/p>\n
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Directors Statement<\/p>\n
I created this short film using puppet animation for the song \u201cIf You Wait\u201d by the artist Teitur. One of the producers was familiar with my work and forwarded the song. At first listen, I found the track to be very poetic and could immediately see it\u2019s potential as a visual narrative.
\nI took an intuitive approach in creating the animation. The process involved listening to the music over and over again, contemplating the lyrics and allowing images to float to the surface. In that layered way, a narrative and visual universe was formed.
\nI also allowed things to happened during the process of building the puppets and the scenes themselves. This free association approach was also applied when we shot the film, where the photographers input helped bring the puppets and different scenaries to life.
\nMy aim was to create a magical and poetic black and white short, while retaining elements of colour. Everything is therefore made in shades of black, white and grey, combined with mirrors and reflective surfaces. The main character is emotionally paralysed yet hopeful. I illustrated this though his physical attributes and demeanour. I further emphasized his passivity by immersing his static form with very active scenes.<\/p>\n
See her website at www.sarananna.dk<\/p>\n
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Producer, Kristian Troldborg S\u00f8nderby\u2019s Statement<\/p>\n
CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT WITH PATIENCE<\/p>\n
As the director of the collected Story Music Interactive project and producer of this music video, it is a great pleasure to see that the creative principles, that Teitur uses and the project shares with us, really are alive.<\/p>\n
The work on the video initiated when the director (aka yours truly) of Story Music Interactive \u2013 an interactive film, that with time developed into a collected project also including several kinds of cultural products \u2013 found the development to be at a stand still. In fact it was facing a breakthrough soon to come, but that\u00b4s another story. \u201cThe creative movement and development must continue!\u201d he then thought, and found new ways to do that.<\/p>\n
He contacted Sara Nanna, never having met her before. A YouTube video and one meeting was enough: Sara was ready to join the project, and her ideas and the honest search of her work fit the proces.<\/p>\n
The video is a proof of Teiturs thesis, that a truly good song doesn\u00b4t loose its actuality. He himself states that he\u00b4d rather write songs that lasts for 300 years that making hits. And it did take a while for the video to be made and to find the right time and place for it to premiere. But both the video and the song are as razor sharp and actual as when the record was released and the first preparations for the video were made in 2013.<\/p>\n
Story Music Interactive has from the beginning had the character of a travelling into the unknown. A discovery of Teiturs creative principles by putting them to use \u2013 as you learn to understand them. The video to \u201cIf you wait\u2026\u201d contains and exposes the complete core of Story Music Interactive: to give your self time, to embark on creative endeavours, to involve others, to share, to make choices, to unfold your unique talent and to nourish intention and quality.<\/p>\n
The way the video ends is both ironic and shrewd \u2013 and it leaves something open for those who involved: Sure, you are allways in some way or the other submitted something bigger than your self \u2013 and therefore you have to endure and accept anything, and sometimes nothing. But is that really it? Is there nothing we can do? Both the song and the video are, as creative products an answer to that question: yes, there is!<\/p>\n
In the very same way, Story Music Interactive is a project with good time in it. An unpredictable but fruitful creative travel. A project that again and again must donate to itself portions of patience. Meanwhile it keeps giving birth to creative products: concerts, films, interactive development and involvement, cooperations, education of all involved, a book, an album to begin with, and even a special made tea. This time, this video.<\/p>\n
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Director & Artist Sara Nanna
\nDoP Thomas Jessen
\nEditor Rebekka J\u00f8rgensen
\nVisual Effects & Grading Christian Schwanenflugel
\nCamera Operator Anders Bondrup Lasbo
\nProductionassistents Yula Sciavitsky Dalberg & Ingilin D. Str\u00f8m
\nProducers Kristian Troldborg S\u00f8nderby & Pelle Folmer
\nProduction company 1606 interactive
\nMusic & Lyrics Teitur Lassen
\nArtist Teitur
\nPuiblisher Arlo & Betty Records<\/p>\n
The presentation of the Musicvideo in the Danish Filmmagazine Ekko
\nThe presentation of the Musicvideo in the Danish Musicmagazine Gaffa
\nAn article and presentation at the Faroese online magazine Portal.fo<\/p>\n
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FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
\n2016 Vault Film Festival, London, United Kingdom \/ February \/ Official Selection
\n2016 Nordic Music Video Awards 2016 \/ March \/ shortlisted
\n2016 Fresh Legs 2016 (censored exhibition), Berlin \/ June
\n2016 Art All Night, Trenton, USA \/ June \/ Official Selection
\n2016 festival de cortometrajes \u201cJose Francisco Rosado\u201d PACAS, Pedro Munoz 7 December \/ Official Selection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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