Manic Street Preachers by Alex Lake
Manic Street Preachers release their new album on September 3rd.
Manic Street Preachers are back with director Kieran Evans on the official video for their recent single Orwellian.
“For this album project, Wire and myself decided there should be more experimentation to the visual approach to both the promos and short films we have planned,” Evans says.
“We’ve called this clip of Orwellian a ‘visualized’ version because it’s not strictly a promo, it’s much more of a visual interpretation of the song by me. To create it, I utilised footage from my personal film archive alongside material I’ve recently shot of the band and of the Diamond Light we have designed for the campaign.”
“The selection of shots and the colour grade were very much influenced by the lyrics and allowed me to frame a visual story that reflected the themes of such a vital and compelling song.”
Orwellian accompanied the announcement of The Ultra Vivid Lament last month, described by the band as, ‘about the battle to claim meaning, the erasing of context within debate, the overriding sense of factional conflict driven by digital platforms leading to a perpetual state of culture war’.
