BATTICUORE -Alessandro Cortini
2019 | MUSIC VIDEO, DIRECTIONThe track BATICUORE is taken from Alessandro Cortini’s studio album VOLUME MASSIMO, released on Mute in Sept 2019. The music video, that premiered on CRACKMAGAZINE, also served as visual material for Alessandro’s worldtour, that premiered at Atonal Berlin.
Directors: Emilie Elizabeth + Alessandra Leone
DoP/Camera: Julian Moser
Colorist: Lutz Forster
Dancers: Maurice Jabar Werner + Darwin Stapel
Wardrobe Consultant: Raki Fernandez
Grooming: Carmen Rachel
Special thanks: Johanna Liebl and UY Studio, HvH Studios
︎︎︎ World premiere of 'Volume Massimo' at Berlin Atonal - Photo by Emilie Elizabeth ︎︎︎
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On Fire - Zoë Mc Pherson
2022 - MUSIC VIDEO, DIRECTIONOn Fire - Zoë Mc Pherson
First drop from Zoë Mc Phersons’ Pitch Blender album, out March, 3 2023 on SFX
Directed by Alessandra Leone
Music by Zoë Mc Pherson
Production - OMUT/Alexander Stoletov
DoP - Adriana Berroteran
Editor - Alessandra Leone
Colorist - Agustin Melfi
Movement director - Kiki Ramos Sorvik
Cast - Hen/i, Zoë Mc Pherson, Julien Fargetton, Nate Helmerick, Emilia Martos
Hair and MuA - Khrystyna Fedoryshyn, Amira
Styling - MAAY
Production assistants - Violeta Puskariova, Rene Neumann
1st AC - Jason “Tiger” Yanez
2nd AC - Ali Farrokhian
Gaffer - Enzo Hipp
Best Boy Light - Alfredo La Corte Machado
Location Manager - Olivia Stubbe
Funded by MusicBoard Berlin
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SABBIA -Alessandro Cortini
2019 | MUSIC VIDEO, DIRECTION
SABBIA is the second Music Video release from Alessandro Cortini’s VOLUME MASSIMO. This was a co-direction with Emilie Elizabeth, who created the artworks for the album, and was developed from her initial visual concept.
Directors: Emilie Elizabeth + Alessandra Leone
DoP/Camera: Julian Moser
Colorist: Lutz Forster
Dancers: Maurice Jabar Werner + Darwin Stapel
Wardrobe Consultant: Raki Fernandez
Grooming: Carmen Rachel
Special thanks: Johanna Liebl and UY Studio, HvH Studios
︎︎︎ World premiere of 'Volume Massimo' at Berlin Atonal - 2019 - Photo by Emilie Elizabeth ︎︎︎
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Zoë Mc Pherson - TENACE
2020 - MUSIC VIDEO, DIRECTIONZoë Mc Pherson - TENACE
From Zoë Mc Pherson's album States of Fugue, released on SFX on 20.02.20
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Direction - Alessandra Leone
Performance - Zoë Mc Pherson
DoP - Julian Moser
Editing - Alessandra Leone
Styling - Raki Fernandez
Hair and Makeup - Samantha Pottmaier
Color Grading - Valerio Liberatore ( Mint )
Gaffer - Hendrik Kintscher
Lighting Design Assistant - Nindya Nareswari
Stills Photography - Dario Laganà
Thanks to
Medienwerkstatt Berlin - bbk Kulturwerk/ Location
MimeCentrum - Studio2 / Location
Don Aretino / Wardrobe
© SFX 2020. All rights reserved.
Director's notes
Drawing on the track’s relentless rhythms, the music video is raw, spontaneous and personal.
The idea is simple : the intimate act of dancing (on your own), and letting yourself get carried away. Maybe as a sort of reset button? A way to go through your struggle? dancing it out, allowing yourself to be in flux. Without filter.
I challenged Zoë with this concept, and she totally embraced it. The result is direct and straightforward. This way, it becomes an invitation to loosen ourselves : open up and let the sounds flow, bottom to top, without overthinking.
The music video was produced while we were also brainstorming about the new AV live show, which is why there's a strong presence of stage lighting ideas. The first scene is set against an infinity background of vivid colours, it is soft and smooth, then we are in a dark pool with few sharp gritty beams, similar to searchlights. We end with RGB pure diode lasers, threads of concentrated pure light cutting into darkness whose beams are so intense and thick, they feel like tangible thin volumes. In a way, one could see a sort of narrative of lighting quality/environment viscosity and thickness, where each mood stands for a stage of the inner emotional development.
Zoë's insistently moving presence is restless. She sways between calibrated body motion in repetition, and more frantic movement where her body raves and releases, driven by an inner force, or by the circular cracking sound, or both. The camera’s position grants us a view over it, half-way between wide-angled contemplation and subjectivity. This makes the video, in the end, open to your interpretation.
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Artist’s notes
We chose this track to be the visual representation of States of Fugue’s rhythmical essence.
Play with club music meters, explore vocal/organic dynamics, pull out new patterns of movement and reactivate forgotten muscles.
Tenace is also a logical bridge between the album release and our new AV live show which we were going to premiere and tour this april 2020 but had to postpone due to the world pandemic.
The video concept Alessandra Leone proposed to me was an interesting challenge, fitting with the track’s engagement to persistence : relentlessly dancing yourself out.
Moving different parts with the consciousness of the whole human body, exploring physical textures, fighting energetically with the issues you face, syncing with our inner body, finding (new) ways (out), letting go, getting closer to your body language, whatever it is, without any concession.
It is a way to gather forces and face challenges in real life such as (and not limited to) when “Tenace”’s music was written.
The track’s addictive rhythm and insistence is a motivation and way to empower yourself, shift, persist, accept uncertainty and move deeper in all directions.
Play with club music meters, explore vocal/organic dynamics, pull out new patterns of movement and reactivate forgotten muscles.
Tenace is also a logical bridge between the album release and our new AV live show which we were going to premiere and tour this april 2020 but had to postpone due to the world pandemic.
The video concept Alessandra Leone proposed to me was an interesting challenge, fitting with the track’s engagement to persistence : relentlessly dancing yourself out.
Moving different parts with the consciousness of the whole human body, exploring physical textures, fighting energetically with the issues you face, syncing with our inner body, finding (new) ways (out), letting go, getting closer to your body language, whatever it is, without any concession.
It is a way to gather forces and face challenges in real life such as (and not limited to) when “Tenace”’s music was written.
The track’s addictive rhythm and insistence is a motivation and way to empower yourself, shift, persist, accept uncertainty and move deeper in all directions.
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