Two of our favorite movies of the year so far are Alex Garland's "Ex Machina" and Peter Strickland's "The Duke Of Burgundy," and both directors have taken a bit of time between their next features to dip their toes into the music video world for the first time.
For <Kaeb —Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow's "alter ego" spinoff band from his side project Beak> —Garland co-directed "When We Fall" with "Ex Machina" director of photography Rob Hardy, which explains the video's gritty aesthetic. "If the band records something which feels too comfortable with itself, they reject it. Rob Hardy, Sonoya Mizuno, Erline O'Donovan and I tried to make the video for 'When We Fall' on their aesthetic terms: shot one afternoon on an iPhone, held up to the viewfinder of an old Nikon SLR, then cut as instinctively as possible," he told Pitchfork.
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