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High Vis
'Mind's a Lie'
16 August 2024 4 mins 46s

'Mind's a Lie' by High Vis is borne out of frustration at a lack of resources, a lack of support for people who need it most ("Redemption so far beyond me/Paranoid, alone, and lonely"). Frontman Graham Sayle sings, "Do you wanna giz a chance to try?" like a man who already knows the answer.

So does the protagonist of Martina Pastori’s music video. Played by Welsh movement director Sem Osian, the guy is a one-man petty crime wave who chucks bricks through windows and takes a piss wherever he pleases. Yet if that were all there was to him, this would be a rather dull promo.

We come to regard him as a man in search of an outlet. The hunt sees him run across a field with his shirt off, shadow box his mate on the roof of a tower block, then fight for real in the gym. It reminds us of Spud's odyssey in 'T2: Trainspotting', and the band's colour palette suggests they like it.

Shot in: New Cross, London

Product Category: Promos

Territory: UK


production
My Accomplice
Director: Martina Pastori
DOP: Blue Laybourne
editing
Final Cut
Editor: Lucy Berry
color
ELMNTL
Colourist: Henry Howard
Actor: Sem Osian

  High Vis - 'Mind's a Lie'


High Vis
'Mind's a Lie'
16 August 2024 4 mins 46s

'Mind's a Lie' by High Vis is borne out of frustration at a lack of resources, a lack of support for people who need it most ("Redemption so far beyond me/Paranoid, alone, and lonely"). Frontman Graham Sayle sings, "Do you wanna giz a chance to try?" like a man who already knows the answer.

So does the protagonist of Martina Pastori’s music video. Played by Welsh movement director Sem Osian, the guy is a one-man petty crime wave who chucks bricks through windows and takes a piss wherever he pleases. Yet if that were all there was to him, this would be a rather dull promo.

We come to regard him as a man in search of an outlet. The hunt sees him run across a field with his shirt off, shadow box his mate on the roof of a tower block, then fight for real in the gym. It reminds us of Spud's odyssey in 'T2: Trainspotting', and the band's colour palette suggests they like it.

Shot in: New Cross, London

Product Category: Promos

Territory: UK


production
My Accomplice
Director: Martina Pastori
DOP: Blue Laybourne
editing
Final Cut
Editor: Lucy Berry
color
ELMNTL
Colourist: Henry Howard
Actor: Sem Osian

High Vis 16 August 2024
'Mind's a Lie' 4 mins 46s

by Andrew MacGregor

'Mind's a Lie' by High Vis is borne out of frustration at a lack of resources, a lack of support for people who need it most ("Redemption so far beyond me/Paranoid, alone, and lonely"). Frontman Graham Sayle sings, "Do you wanna giz a chance to try?" like a man who already knows the answer.

So does the protagonist of Martina Pastori’s music video. Played by Welsh movement director Sem Osian, the guy is a one-man petty crime wave who chucks bricks through windows and takes a piss wherever he pleases. Yet if that were all there was to him, this would be a rather dull promo.

We come to regard him as a man in search of an outlet. The hunt sees him run across a field with his shirt off, shadow box his mate on the roof of a tower block, then fight for real in the gym. It reminds us of Spud's odyssey in 'T2: Trainspotting', and the band's colour palette suggests they like it.

Shot in: New Cross, London

Product Category: Promos

Territory: UK


production
My Accomplice
Director: Martina Pastori
DOP: Blue Laybourne
editing
Final Cut
Editor: Lucy Berry
color
ELMNTL
Colourist: Henry Howard
Actor: Sem Osian