Director of Photography

O'Connor Hartnett

O'Connor Hartnett directs a punchy promo to herald the return of blues-rock outfit White Denim.&nbsp;The video for Lock And Key presents the band's frontman&nbsp;James Petralli in a studio recording the track, intermittently glitching into a skeleton, then subsequently flipping into&nbsp;an array of other avatar-characters.&nbsp;Tinged with absurdism and a feelgood vibe, it's a deceptively simple concept mixing old school performance with accessible VFX and executed to perfection.&nbsp;

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White Denim 'Lock And Key' by O'Connor Hartnett

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Daniel Ryan&#39;s video for School Of Seven Bells&#39;&nbsp;Signals&nbsp;employs themes of escape and healing, while paying tribute to late band member Benjamin Curtis. Taken from the band&#39;s final album SVIIB, it features the band&#39;s Alejandra Deheza both dancing passionately on her own,&nbsp;and becoming clinically dismantled, like a doll, while Curtis&#39;s guitar remains untouched.Deheza told Noisey, where the video was premiered: &quot;Signals&nbsp;is a 100 percent love song to all of the music that woke us up as kids &ndash; that woke us up to the fact that music wasn&rsquo;t other, that it was in our blood, that got us stalking record stores, sneaking into 21 and over shows, obsessing over&nbsp;Melody Makers&nbsp;in the public library, listening through radio countdowns (Power 96 MIA!) just to get to THAT song, the thrill of getting to play with our heroes&mdash;a total mixtape of love and thank yous. Favorite moment on the record.&quot;Making a video for this was a definite from its first day in the studio. Daniel [Ryan] was in LA working on a film, so we grabbed dinner. I remember he asked me, &lsquo;If you could make a video for any song on this record, what would it be?&rsquo; I didn&rsquo;t even have to think about it.&quot;&nbsp;

O'Connor Hartnett

Director of Photography

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