Leaman Dances Through a Nightmarish Reality in His Compelling Video for Sam Phay’s ‘After Life’

DN last caught up with Director Jesse Leaman for his Guy Pearce starring short Lorne, in which we conversed about the film’s intense, single-day shoot that captured the story of one man’s isolation. Leaman returns to Directors Notes’ pages today with an equally ambitious film in the form of After Life, a music video for Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Sam Phay. The video, similarly to Lorne, follows an individual traversing a nightmarish reality. This time however he does so through the medium of dance. This gives After Life an eerie yet poetic quality which made it a film we just had to share. DN is delighted to feature After Life below accompanied by a conversation with Leaman about the process of creating a music video with next-to-nothing and making it feel as vivid and ambitious as possible.

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