Glass Animals - Heat Waves

Directed remotely across an ocean, shot with social distancing, and involving an entire neighborhood in the video’s production—enlisting an entire block’s worth of quarantined London residents to become part of the camera team. 

Some words from Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley about the video:

“This video is a love letter to live music and the culture and togetherness surrounding it. It was filmed at the peak of the lockdown in my neighbourhood in East London by the lovely people who live around me, just using their phones. These are people who are usually out at shows, in galleries, going to cinemas etc. These venues are left empty now, and many of them will not survive. The song is about loss and longing, and ultimately realizing you are unable to save something...and this video is about that but for art, being together, and human contact. ...When everyone was leaning out of their windows filming, I felt that same sense of togetherness and spine-tingling energy that happened at live shows. It made the coldness of performing to an empty room with the band stuck on screens feel even more heart-breaking.”

GLASS ANIMALS - HEAT WAVES
 
DIRECTOR: COLIN READ
PRODUCER: ERIN SAYDER
EXEC. PRODUCER: RIK GREEN
PRODUCTION COMPANY: PULSE FILMS
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: SAM MEYER
PRODUCTION MANAGER: RACHEL BASHFORD 
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: BON WALSH
1st AD: CHRIS MALIN
LOCATION MANAGER: TITUS PENATE
EDIT: COLIN READ
GRADE: SAM GURSKY
FOCUS PULLER: LOUIS VELLA
CAMERA ASSISTANT: MAX SMITH
GAFFER:WILL POPE 
DIT: OLLIE MARTIN
RUNNER: ELLIOT B LANG
RUNNER: SILVESTER SCHLEBRUEGGE
POST HOUSE: IRVING HARVEY

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