What do you get when you mix Australian sibling musical duo BrotherSister with Yankee creative house Shilo? How about two and a half minutes of seamless camera movement from a forest into a molten, apocalyptic, alien landscape?
Australia’s BrotherSister describe themselves as indie, down-tempo and experimental … which is pretty much how we’d describe the video Shilo crafted to go with the worldwide release of the band’s single ‘Still Running’ earlier this spring.
"We are really excited about this video," Dante Nou (the brother in BrotherSister) said. "We've both [he and his sister] … been blown away by their creativity, and feel that the film ties in with the music perfectly. Shilo also helped out with the cover art for 'The Wunder Tales,' [corresponding album] and so the style has bled through to this really well."
"As Shilo's artists developed the video, they sent us bits and pieces along the way, which in turn spoke to the videos we were devising for projection at our live shows," added Xavia Nou (Dante’s sister).
Shilo produced the video as their latest inspirational side-project,
under the creative direction of Shilo co-founder, creative director and
director André Stringer. "For the video, I wanted to explore the idea
of perseverance through change and adversity, and we found a way to
take that idea to an epic scale by using one seamless shot where a
person runs though time and space,” said Stringer.
“We began by shooting a five-second test of the guy running in front of a green screen, and over the course of about a year, we turned that into a full music video. Almost everyone in the studio has touched it at some point, including Dante when he was here contributing sound design and music to some of our other projects."
Like a lot of the work created by Shilo, ‘Still Run’ is cross medium, using still photography and cinematography of custom-built miniatures, 3D computer animation, and compositing and visual effects artistry.
"We did not want the finished look to appear photo-real, but rather, as a highly stylized vision, like something that may appear in a dream," said Shilo's lead artist Chris Fung. "Working over a long period of time with many different types of elements, our main challenge was to seamlessly combine everything into one strong, visually compelling story."