Alt-J @ Leeds Festival (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Alt-J have created another short film for a track taken from their recent Relaxer album.
Pleader is one of many glorious cuts from the record, and is the latest to be given a cinematic promo. It’s courtesy of director Isaiah Seret and was fittingly inspired by the Richard Llewellyn novel How Green Was My Valley?.
Speaking to NPR upon its premiere, Joe Newman explained:
“When we set out to make a video for ‘Pleader’ Joe sent the following one line brief to director Isaiah Seret: ‘a Welsh mining love story; a tidal wave of earth’. What Isaiah came back with was an epic short film, inspired both by the song’s source material and Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice. A family must pit their desire to have a child against the knowledge that this would destroy their community.”
