Ex-Savages frontwoman Jennie Beth is reimagined as classical sculpture through the ages by Tom Hingston and Markus Lehtonen at Hingston Studio, in a stunning film that encapsulates the passion, power and lust expressed in the track We Will Sin Together from her debut solo album, To Love Is To Live.

Created entirely in 3D during lockdown, Hingston and Lehtonen have created an intimate encounter of two alter egos – the male and female – in digital marble. Exploring pleasure, power and transformation, religious and mythological iconography play a central role throughout the film.

Over five individual scenes, subtle references to a specific moment in Catholic, Roman and Greek narratives are made – the Virgin Mary; Cupid and Psyche; Pluto and Proserpina; Michael and Lucifer; and Satyr and Hermaphroditus. The marmoreal flesh of classical sculpture becomes Beth’s own, complete with tattoos and her signature jewellery.

The video combines 3D capture of Jehnny Beth taken from the original album photo session by Hingston Studio, alongside motion capture shot in early March. The entire film has been finished over the three month period of global lockdown caused by COVID-19, with the team working remotely between London, Paris and Tokyo.

TOM HINGSTON:

“The embodiment of different voices, and this whole notion of embracing the masculine and feminine characteristics of identity was the main starting point for us.

“The record has an attitude and a driving intent – there is a rawness from her lyrics and the production which doesn’t sound like anything you’ve heard before.

"We spent time researching individuals who have studied and celebrated the physical form, and most importantly those who have immortalised human figures through their work – for instance the great Renaissance and Flemish sculptors such as Cellini and Giambolgona. Specifically how they had reinterpreted the human form through stone or marble and the behaviour of that material."