Sonia Bernardo plays an unreliable self-help 'guru' in Harry Tomlin's absorbing musical drama for the  British/Portuguese singer-songwriter's song What, If Not The Family?

The video is set in a community centre self-help group, where Bernardo talks (and in fact sings) to the assembled, reading from a printed leaflet. She paces around the room, bewitching the group as they listen intently. The camera lingers on their faces - and then members of the group start dancing, demonstrating the psychic hold that Bernardo now has over them.  

With a gently surreal, slightly unsettling sensibility - the use of slightly-off eyelines and unusual composition leans into this mood - Harry Tomlin has created an enigmatic, palpable atmosphere to frame Bernardo's performance of the song.  

"Sonia and I discussed this piece being an exploration of ideology and a narrator that we can't fully trust," he explains.

"She also wanted to incorporate the Portuguese dance 'bachata' which really excited me, giving us a chance to explore this contrast between the serious, stiff reality and the fluid, surreal dance realm.

"[This allowed] us a window into these people's soul through the slow embrace of dance," Tomlin continues. "I wanted to use Sonia's audience as a mouthpiece for the lyrics, both literally and through their body language."