DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF
'OVER THE WALL' OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
esma creative studio
'Over The Wall' is taken from the electronic music album 'XO', composed and performed by Lucien Moreau.
The music video, produced by ESMA Creative Studio for 'Over The Wall', tells about a journey. A girl, a monk, a human being with superior consciousness. All these in one. A Wanderer, living inside a concrete maze, on a cold faraway land. An hermit, living in a cage of pure spirituality. Searching for freedom. Searching for a way through the wall. A wall, parting her from the rest, parting one humanity from another. A sacred wall of meditation. Or just a simple act of meditation, to wade through the concrete and be free. A metaphor of all the walls we humans are building – inside and outside – to make divisions, to part us from the inevitable truth we don't want to accept: we are one. And we should deal with that. No divisions. No differences. No borders. Just one humanity.
Music and lyrics, as well as visuals and art, are entitled to talk (or scream) about the crucial themes of our time. Otherwise, what's the meaning of all art?
In the music video, bees are the carrier of the ancient energy, called back by the magic of the Wanderer. Bees are finally able to open a portal, a way through, an eye of light amid the bursting energy.
On the other side, a wide population of unknown creatures are waiting in the magic forest. Creatures we need to understand and join. The monster is always inside, not outside. The monster is our misperception, our mislead judgment, our religious superstructures. The Wanderer perceives her own inner ego throughout the song. Different identities, many souls: ID, EGO, SUPEREGO. Layers. Rooms of the Mind Palace. To the last one. The opening and the beginning of a new path.
The video was entirely shot and set at the beautiful Carlo Scarpa's Brion Cemetery, where the famous modernist architect also rests. We strongly wanted to enhance the otherwordly style of his sacred building by decontextualizing it from its original function. We wanted to enhance the futuristic, yet organic, identity of the monument, by considering it not just as a set, but as a real character of the video. Architecture often shapes its inhabitants. Hence, make-up and costume of the Wanderer were designed by the artist Tobias Tran to reflect details and geometries of Carlo Scarpa's architecture. Water streams over concrete walls. Lotus flowers over sharp but golden corners. Gentleness and hardness mixed up in a perfect balance, on the edge between life and death. While developing the cinematography we immediately pointed at using cold shades and lights. We imagined the life of the Wanderer as a research of truth, far from the mundane perils of emotions. Bees bring the warm shades into the video, at the end of it, as a symbol of essence and humanity.
Video Credits
Produced by ESMA Creative Studio.
Written, directed and edited by Lucien Moreau.
Starring Alice Lobo.
Starring Alice Lobo.
Cinematography and photography by Eugenio Squarcia.
Postproduction and effects by ESMA Creative Studio.
Postproduction and effects by ESMA Creative Studio.
Make-up design and costumes by Tobias Tran.
Additional sound effects by Federico Viola.
Mastering by Animal House Studio.
Taken from the album 'XO' out on digital release and limited edition CD at http://esma.bandcamp.com/
(All rights reserved © Lucien Moreau / ESMA Creative Studio)
