WE ARE ON FIRE - COCOROSIE
Director/Producer: Emma Freeman.
Producer: Joerg Lassak / Curtisfilm.
Producer (Australia): Leanne Tonkes.
Cinematographer: Filip Piskorzynski.
Cinematographer (Australia): John Brawley.
Editors: Emma Freeman, Filip Piskorzynski & Billy Browne.
Production Design: Beatrace Oola.
1st AC: Jan Phillip Grelich Weisscam.
Operator (Hamburg): Christian Steidten Weisscam.
Operator (Australia): Matt Chow.
Production Design Assistant: Denise Wissmann.
Hair & Make Up: Ferdinand Foecking, Katharina Schneider.
Gaffer: Mirko Buchholz.
Electrician: Bemme Emmrich, Gert Seggewiss.
Grip: Adriano Grilli.
Production Assistants: Anton Pleva, Lou van Houtte, Adam Dostalek.
Studio & Technical Equipment: Cinegate Hamburg, Kai Habermann.
Weisscam: MBF Hamburg, Nadine Oesterreicher, Red Apple (Australia).
Digital Artist: Marcus Smith @ Blue Post www.bluepost.com.au.
Visual Effects: ALT VFX www.altvfx.com.
Featuring CocoRosie, Biño Sauitzvy & Rebecca Wright.
Spirit: Connor Van Vuuren, Jean Marc Ruellan.
Filmed in Hamburg, Germany and Sydney, Australia.
GRAVEDIGGRESS - COCOROSIE
« Shot in Southern France, spanning several different seasons, The Gravediggress emerges from the imagination of the clown. Played and danced by Biño Sauitzvy, The Clown oscillates between young and old, innocent and deranged. Our mother plays the masked Gravediggress who's stuffed hands struggle at menial tasks such as picking wheat
and taking laundry from the line.
The narrative is a loose journey thru the psyche of a lonely outcast who finds ecstasy and company in nature. The filming was spontaneous though it took much more time than a typical music video and without the pressure of a studio and crew we were able to wander and shoot in this way. We let the work steep and revisited the project
months later for another stage of development.
My working relationship with Biño, a Brazilian choreographer based in Paris, who has also trained in circus and clowning, started in 2011 when we developed Nightshift, my first theatrical work. We also started then to discover in dance, the brokenness of the outcast. He played a homeless-drunk, clown called Hummingbird Man.
I have worked on many videos over the last 14 years and have shot many of them in this same location but this is my most narrative attempt to date. I prefer to shoot intimately, just me and the other
and the force of the elements.
Sometimes our hands got frozen cold, or we got attacked by swarms of mosquitos, spiders crawled out of every hole and we truly marveled over the moon and pink sky. » B.Casady.
Directed by Bianca Casady.
With Biño Sauitzvy.
Gravediggress is available on the album Tales of A GrassWidow (CocoRosie).
HOBO - BIANCA CASADY
Hobo is taken from the album "Oscar Hocks".
Directed by Bianca Casady.
With Biño Sauitzvy.
Video made in collaboration with Biño Sauitzvy and Corentin JPM LEVEN.
DOG IN A YARD - BIANCA CASADY
Dog In a Yard is taken from the album "Oscar Hocks".
By Bianca Casady and the C.i.A (JM Ruellan on Piano).
Directed by Bianca Casady.
Video created with Biño Sauitzvy.
PORNO THIETOR - BIANCA CASADY
From"Oscar Hocks”, by Bianca Casady & The C.i.A.
« I wrote this song when i was 12. Shot this video with JM as the Devil and Biño Sauitzvy as the maiden inspired by the " Handless Maiden fairy tale." B. Casady.
Directed by Bianca Casady.
With Biño Sauitzvy and Jean-Marc Ruellan.
ROADKILL - BIANCA CASADY
From"Oscar Hocks”, by Bianca Casady & The C.i.A.
« It was made with the Norwegian Theatre Academy last winter where I directed my 2nd play tilted "Mother Hunting". Biño Sauitzvy did the choreography and it was performed by the "Clown Widows" played by Lærke Grøntved, Anders Firing Aardal and David Jensen the scenography was made in collaboration with Corentin JPM Leven and Mareike Dobewall. » B. Casady
Directed by Bianca Casady.
Choreographed by Biño Sauitzvy.
SMASH MY HEAD - COCOROSIE
“Smash My Head” - taken from the new album “Put The Shine On”, from CocoRosie.
Directed by Bianca Casady.
Edited by Sky Ainsbury.
Asylum performers: Irina Anufrieva, Linn Haldrup Lorenzen, Biño Sauitzvy, Christopher Nell, Per Magnus Barlaug.
DAISY CHAIN - BIANCA CASADY & THE C.I.A.
From the album Oscar Hocks - Bianca Casady & The C.I.A.
Performer photos: Biño Sauitzvy.