Bat For Lashes’ The Dream of Delphi music video from filmmaker Freddie Leyden – who last joined us here on Dn with Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls, a movement based indictment of London Guildhall’s legacies of slavery and colonisation – combines 70s folk horror influences with surreal imagery and retro camera-trickery to invoke a palpable atmosphere of dreamlike ethereality. The video stars Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan as, initially, a lone figure, dressed in an eye-catching red dress, flowing and weaving her way through the mystifying electronic tones of the song. It’s very much a video that understands the power of colour, costume and composition, and how through a tight combination of each of those elements, an effective and transportive ambience can be created. We caught up with Leyden for a chat about his hypnotic video, where he talks about everything from the camera tricks...
- 4/11/2024
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
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