![]() ![]() And I’ll complement her by making it look good and hopefully enhance the music through the visuals.”ĭancers feature in the video clip for ‘Cyclone Hush’, a song about the freedom of movement. “Hearing the song, I thought, ‘I have my own vision’, but rather than me push my agenda on to Bindi, I wanted to let the artist tell the story and give her the creative freedom. ![]() “It’s something that gives me an opportunity to be creative and out of my comfort zone in some ways,” says Jenkins. The process between Blacher and Jenkins has been collaborative, with a flowing exchange of ideas and references leading into their one-day shoot. Practice makes perfect, and I want to be perfect,” he says. “The more opportunities you get, the better you get. Despite a wide range of experience as a filmmaker, including the creation of short films and several music videos, Jenkins saw 10×10 as an opportunity to continue honing his craft while also supporting local musicians. Photo: Tim Harknessīlacher was paired with filmmaker Adam Jenkins of Deadly Designs Media. “We’re realising it visually now, which is really exciting, because that’s not something I’ve done much of before.”īindi Blacher during filming of the music video for ‘Cyclone Hush’. “It’s a song that’s about the freedom of movement… that feeling of being embodied and how the power of that can be quite transformative. “It’s probably the most positive and upbeat song of my EP,” Blacher says. Singer-songwriter Bindi Blacher’s track “Cyclone Hush” inspired the scenes filmed in the Adelaide Hills studio, where two dancers in white weave among undulating blue silken material. “For filmmakers, what I love about music videos is that with every music video I’ve done I always try to do something new visually, something that I haven’t tried before, and I think that’s what’s exciting about music videos – it’s a time for the filmmakers to kind of experiment.”įor many of the musician participants in this year’s Adelaide 10×10, it is also a fast learning curve as they wade into the world of music video production for the first time. “The band can use this as a tool to kind of help them get gigs or notoriety or just promote their song. “With music videos, they inherently have this life because the band is going to use it,” he says. ![]() He devised the 10×10 structure when he realised that bringing musicians into the mix could give the filmmakers’ creations greater longevity and purpose. This is the Adelaide music scene right now, in 2023,” says Norwood Cheek, an LA-based filmmaker and the creator of the 10×10 format.Ĭheek first ran a 10×10 event in Canada about 15 years ago after conducting several short-turnaround filmmaking challenges where participants were required to use Super 8 film. “What I love about it is 10×10 really becomes such a snapshot of that time and that moment in that place. Only undertaken once previously in Adelaide, in 2008, it’s a concept that has its origins halfway around the world. The 10×10 format sees 10 filmmakers matched with 10 musicians and the resulting teams tasked with completing a music video in less than 10 days. Moments like these played out across Adelaide in the handful of days following February 15, as local musicians and film-makers were brought together by Adelaide Fringe project 10×10. Through the lens of a camera, as the material catches the light and the camera roves around it, the scene seems to transform – recalling storm-stained clouds, a roiling ocean and, occasionally, a bright, calm sky. Just a few days later, at a home studio in the Adelaide Hills, two dancers dressed all in white move sinuously around a gently waving stretch of silken material. Dozens of people move in and out of the space, rigging lights, setting a camera on a slider, and gathering props that slowly turn the aesthetic of one slice of the room from comfortable inner-Adelaide to Miami Vice. In a suburban lounge room on an oppressively hot evening, “The Car” by the Arctic Monkeys plays on vinyl. How AgTech can bring the buzz back to South Australia Search All categories ![]()
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