Twin Shadow premieres ‘At My Heels’ video
aaamusic | On 02, Apr 2011
The official video for ‘At My Heels’, the latest single by New York’s Twin Shadow, has been given its global premiere online via the website of its acclaimed directors.
Taking inspiration from DVD audio commentaries, ‘The Directors’ have provided their own sound bites to accompany the painstakingly rendered film. Inspired by the band’s internet celebrity, ‘At My Heels’ features previously unseen footage of the Blogosphere, the iconic Blue Ladder and heart-warming snippets of the Siberian Tiger. As with so much of their work, the video was very much a labour of love for the talented duo who make their first and last foray into music films.
Watch ‘At My Heels’ here:
A WORD FROM ‘THE DIRECTORS’:
“Twin Shadow challenged us to make a film that was highly diseased, something sick, something bacterially infected, something wrought with viruses. He wanted us to take this film to its last remaining breath, knocking on heaven’s door while gasping for air within inches of life, and then REVIVE and REVEAL it to the world. He also wanted us to think outside the browser. Little did we know that we were entering something so stark and so dark. Although it was our first foray into music films and almost certainly will be our last, we look back at the undertaking with a sense of accomplishment and artful wonder.
And it certainly has gone viral. To paraphrase Elvis, who shared our fondness for tigers, “10,000,000 blogs can’t be wrong”.
“There is no key to my gate” was a challenge for us to go deeper then we had ever gone before. The grand reveal of the Siberian. The arm reveal during the first entrance into the blogosphere. The Green Face. We COULD go on and on. Each historical moment within this film is forever ingrained in our minds and hearts, and brings us one step closer to opening the “gate” which Twin Shadow eludes to that leads, eventually, to the doors of perception.
It should be known that we had initially planned on a shot of George’s heels as the very last shot, a controversial achillean ending and a nod to Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal”, nodding to “The Last Temptation of Christ”. The label rejected this idea.”
– ‘The Directors’
Winner of South Greenpoint Film Festival for “Short Piece”
Winner at TriBeCa film festival for “musical visualization in short form”
Nominated at Cannes for “Most Ostentatious Use of an Endangered Species”
Recognized by the Moscow Film Festival for being “mildly Russian”
TWIN SHADOW JOINS CHRIS TAYLOR AND SOLANGE KNOWLES TO RELEASE CHARITY SONG
Twin Shadow recently joined forces with Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) and Solange Knowles to create ‘Kenya’ a donate-to-download track for the charity RAIN. The Coca Cola Africa Foundation’s Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) brings together business, local government, NGO’s and committed individuals to tackle the problem of access to water and sanitation in Africa. All proceeds from ‘Kenya’ will be used to provide clean water and sanitation resources to Africa’s most needy. For more information head to www.musicforrain.net
CATCH TWIN SHADOW LIVE:
11th May – The Scala, London (TICKETS)
12th May – Corn Exchange, Brighton (TICKETS)
6th August – Field Day, London (TICKETS)
2nd September – End of the Road Festival, Dorset (TICKETS)
Forget, the debut album by Twin Shadow, is out now
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