SELECT CREDITS

• Revolver Films
• Director
  Scott Cudmore
• Executive Producers
  Richard Cureton and Luc Frappier
• Producers
  Nicole Powell and Katy Maravala
• Director of Photography
  Peter Hadfield
• Choreographer
  Noémie Lafrance
• Asst Choreographer
  Ayelan Liberona
• Wardrobe Stylist
  Sarah Millman
• Hair + Make-Up
  Claudine Baltazar
• Dancers
  Senyo Akakpo, Kaelin Isserlin, Christy Stoeten, Sammy Vassell, Claudi P, Evan Webb, 
Luis Pacheco, Alayna Molotkow, Amanda Eves, Cesar Ginocchio, Beatrice Kwan, Jennifer Pullon, Laura Katherine Hayes, Martin Huss, Matthew Morales, Kennedy Elder, Roderick Chan, Linda Wong, Sydney Levitt, Judy Luo, Zahara Mair, Cassie White, Liana Bellissimo, Daniella Zappala, Paige Foskett, Zach Parsons, Axel-Roman Allioux, Jacob Brien, Evan Webb, Adrian Tam, Lauren Runions, Miriam Franz, Tanya Pavlenko, Mat Mailandt, Jaden Hong, Chris Tsrantoulas, Lou Beckett, David Young
• Feist Creative Director
  Jannie McInnes

EXCERPTS FROM THE DIRECTOR’S TREATMENT:

I want this video to have a mysterious kind of tension, something that is continually building throughout but towards what, and for what reason, we don’t exactly know. This plays to the monistic philosophy of the Tao, in which all opposites are equal and part of the same whole.

Throughout the video, there is choreography and movement but it is repetitive and sort of erratic, almost like it is pent up energy in the body that is building up and struggling to get out.

Feist and her Adversary each have different movements, but they should accompany one another, play off one another like the dance and movements represent the back and forth of the “conversation” of the lyrics.  As much as this should be somewhat tense and aggressive, it will also be beautiful.

In the middle section, everything becomes extreme slow motion as bodies connect in their violent contact, but the slow-motion renders everything a new meaning: a punch becomes an embrace, for example. Wrestling becomes hugging and we elicit the tender from the violent.

With the last chorus, all of the characters hold each other by the collar or the shoulders, singing directly into each others’ eyes, with Feist and Adversary at the centre of it, gripping each other as well and singing with intensity.

When the beat comes back in, the group starts to move together in a unified dance of collective movement. Our camera will track in a single take through all this movement and faces locked in intense expression.

These shots will build intensity until suddenly, everything stops:  a freeze frame almost, everybody locked in time. Suddenly all the bodies part rapidly, splitting and running into a new freeze frame, huddled away from one another in static tableau. In doing so, they reveal Jarvis Cocker who stands between them. The formerly dancing bodies are now frozen static. Jarvis breaks the 4th wall and speaks directly to the camera.

As he speaks and the instrumental ending builds, we cut away from this entire scenario to massive, epic images of the natural world: volcanos erupting, lava flows, desert expanses, mountain ranges, flowers blooming and decaying, Herzog-esque images of the natural world - mist, forest fires, glaciers calving, Iguazu Falls, fields of red flowers, etc and finally ending in outer space with galaxies and nebulas and a supermassive black hole. In doing this we are linking the human experience we encounter in the video to the natural world around us and finally the cosmos. All of this is innately connected.