Kid Moxie
There are moments in your creative life where you meet a person and just know they are a kindred spirit. When I met Kid Moxie I knew we were going to make some great things together. Then she brought me her cover of Big in Japan and I was really taken aback. She took the plucky tongue in cheek Alphaville song and transformed it into serious social commentary with an illusive quality. To me, the much deeper bass notes and the almost sullen vocal tonality made the track feel like a sad sweet lullaby to fame. So I pitched to her the idea of using a younger dancer I knew from a previous film to create a commentary on how we iconize some of these young women on TV. For example when W magazine included a 13-year old Millie Bobby Brown in the section titled “Why TV is Sexier Than Ever” many people showed concern. So we tried to create a video with a little bit of visual tension that might make some viewers just a tad uncomfortable, in order to address some of these ideas. What do you think? …
I was also honored to be asked to shoot a video for this musical collaboration between Kid Moxie and Ivan Iusco, directed by Star Wars / Transformers writer Gavin Hignight. On this project I was the DP, The Editor, and the Colorist…
On this third video Kid Moxie asked me to take this track and do whatever I wanted. The track Slow Escape is full of auditory tension created by these driving arpeggio tones, which are only broken by the twinkling of high pitch single notes of a piano. The track felt like time-travel or holding your breath to me. I decided I wanted to present the sense of time with time-lapses of flower, first blooming, then dying but not in the fast almost animated way that most time-lapse is shot. I wanted it to feel like you were watching the bloom and death in real time, as if you the viewer were doing your own version of time traveling.