Saint Laurence
Melancholia

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Melancholia | Official Music Video

Our most ambitious collaboration with Saint Laurence yet, this project saw us shoot an extended take at sunrise on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a party sequence, and then some truly epic moments on a 3-day road trip through the Australian outback from the windswept Mundi Mundi Plains on the outskirts of Silverton (Mad Max territory!) to the iconic Lake Bumbumga in South Australia.

This project features some of the most visually stunning frames we’ve ever captured, was shot entirely in anamorphic, and mastered in HDR, perfectly setting the backdrop to Melancholia.

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Group of women socializing at a party with pink and blue lighting, one woman in the center appears to be singing or speaking passionately.
A camera mounted on a stabilizer rig in a dark blue and purple-lit setting, with electronic equipment and cables around it.
A person operating a camera on a Steadicam stabilizer filming a scene with a group of people, including a shirtless young man, in a dimly lit room with red lighting.
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A person filming with a camera on a gimbal captures a woman in a white top at a social event with purple and blue lighting.
Group of young people at a party under purple and pink lighting, some holding cups, with a person on the left filming them with a handheld device.
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A person with glasses and a watch looking thoughtfully at a camera setup on a table with various equipment, illuminated by bright lighting in a dark room.
Person filming with a camera in a dimly lit room with bottles and drinks on a table.
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Lyrics

Far away from the party
Don’t follow me to the garden
(Let your iPhone die,
you needed the quiet)

I’ll disappear now that you’re gone
To keep me near all of your love
(Darlin' don’t deny,
yourself of the time)

Have I made you proud?
Are you lookin’ down?
Falling into the blue
I’m all grown up before I’m ready to

Will they play me on the radio?
Will I be another superstar?
It doesn’t matter when I’m in love
With all my melancholia

Are you looking down?
God I’m lonely, but I’m free
It’s a happy melancholy

Drop all the precious metal
How can you know who you are, oh?
(Shed it on the floor,
don’t be your own fraud)

Have I made you proud?
Are you lookin’ down?
Falling into the blue
I’m all grown up before I’m ready to

Will they play me on the radio?
Will I be another superstar?
Doesn’t matter when I’m in love
With all my melancholia

Are you lookin’ down?
God, I’m lonely, but I’m free
It’s a happy melancholy

Will they play me on the radio?
Will I be another superstar (superstar)
It doesn’t matter when I’m in love
With all my melancholia

With all my melancholia
With all my melancholia
With all my melancholia
With all my melancholia

Will they play me on the radio?
Will be another superstar?
It doesn’t matter when I’m in love
With all my melancholia

Have I made you proud?
Are you lookin’ down?
God, I’m lonely, but I’m free
It’s a happy melancholy

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Credits

Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor - Julian Neuhaus
Artist/Creator - Saint Laurence
Talent - Laurence Neuhaus, Amber Wang, India Lewis, Poppy Davis, Chiara Prinsloo, Bailey Brown, Ava Kalinauskas
Engineering & Mix - Antonia Gauci
Filming Locations in New South Wales & South Australia - The Rocks, Haymarket, Millers Point, Barrier Highway, Silverton, Lake Bumbumga, Broken Hill & Mundi Mundi Plains Station

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