Wild One: Hassall - Overpopulator
Anxiety, Insomnia, Heart Palpitations? You've either drunk too much brown bean juice ☕☕☕, or perhaps you're just falling in love... just like rage is, with Naarm artist Hassall (known as Matilda to her friends!), who's brewed up this week's Wild One 'Overpopulator', an over-caffeinated concoction of love, self, and self-love.
Filmed across a number of locations in the small town of Colac, Victoria, the music video for 'Overpopulator' fuses gorgeous colouring (hello, red) with some savvy filming techniques from director Willem Kingma (also known as the frontman for previous Wild One feature receiving band Winksy). 'One idea I had seemed to fit well with the caffeinated themes of the song' says Willem. 'We shot many of the scenes with Matilda and the band miming to the song at half speed. This meant that when the shots were sped up by x2 in the edit, they would be playing in time to the song but with a twitchy tremor to all the movement in the scene. A fun little in camera trick!' 'I love everything Willem touches'' says Matilda. 'We know each other from way back when we were pre-teens doing junior musical theatre together, haha! When I reached out to him to take the reins on this video, all I told him was that I didn't want any dense through-lines or something that took itself too seriously (because it seems I do that in everything else I make). The first lyric of the song is about drinking too much coffee and rendering yourself useless for the rest of the day - so he ran with that as a concept.''I remember the full band squeezing ourselves and our instruments into the small space behind the coffee machine at the cafe, and finding it pretty hard to play the song at the slow speed. Our drummer Will had to half-play and half-mime so he could hear the music over the kit and keep tempo for the rest of us. The jerky, twitchy end result is absolutely perfect in matching the whack energy of the song.'
'The overall idea for the clip was really Matilda's brain child' adds Willem. 'My partner Kelli and I just helped bring it to life!'
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