Luke Bather returns to music videos with this cinematic promo for New German Cinema, the solo project of Jess Weiss of indie-pop band Fear of Men. 

The video for My Mistake unfolds in abstract vignettes, a dark apartment setting the scene for the haunting performance - with American guest vocalist Carson Cox appearing on an old fashioned TV.

Using shape and texture as thematic elements, the video has a palpable energy throughout - strange, mysterious and evocative. 

"It's nice to be back making a music video after so long, and Jess is an artist that I've wanted to work with for years now," says Luke Bather. "We did the whole thing in one day, just before Christmas, with a three person crew and a £0 budget, and we had a blast!

"Our initial starting point was, predictably, the New German Cinema movement. But as we discussed the song's themes in more depth, the video evolved into its own beast.

"Sex, death, repressed desire, and good old-fashioned Catholic Guilt all loom large - inspired by everything from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder through to the paintings of Francis Bacon. The final result is, hopefully, an uncanny, seedy, sexy nightmare from which Jess can’t seem to escape.

"Adding to this, we have the spectre of Carson (who was based in Florida) haunting the video as a ghostly analogue broadcast interspersed with archival footage of Berlin in the 1970s; an inescapable reminder of the past and a nod to the original New German Cinema movement."