The 8th Anormal session. We shot quite intensely, there was little over two weeks between this and the next piece and this time we decided to take the live music video concept in a different direction. Like the upcoming piece, Luna is a kind of fusion short film/live performance. We shot primarily in one 18 hour day, starting with our actress Nori, running barefoot in the forest chased by our Operator wielding a pretty heavy camera tethered to two camera assistants. Lots of falling, lots of scratches.
We were approached a few months earlier by Hangmas, specifically their manager. They played a few tracks off their new album. Luna stayed with me as did the word Lunatic , meaning one who is possessed by the moon.

Bálint and Veronika gave us a beautiful piece to work with. Veronika wrote the lyrics in the woods and we shot the video in a basement cave. At first listening it struck me as song about symbiosis, we drew up a concept that would be simple and complimentary. In the end we decided to focus on the moment between moments. Our production manager and I spent the evenings digging out bricks from the location. it was like unwalling a secret underground world. Just as Veronika was walking in the woods, we were travelling in the dark, Our path lit by our Lighting camera woman Csepeli Eszter.

So Judie Jay tells me she would be singing with an amazing MC from NY city and that I should make my way down to listen. Well sure enough the stage was on fire.We put it out there that we do something together and the man was game. For backup he suggested SoulClap Budapest, He had jammed with one of their members the night before (Bognar Szabolcs) and was keen to work with him again. The thing was Molnar Adam had booked him for a brief trip, ILLspokinn would be leaving in four days so we had to pull something together in three. SoulClap hadn’t heard the lyrics, ILLspokinn hadn’t heard the music, and we hadn’t seen the location or heard either. Our cinematographer Györi Márk and our colorist Juristovszky Tamara  rustled up some magic out of thin air. And all this shot on our production managers birthday. A true collaboration, recording sound and image on the fly a:normal style.

Sunny day, perfect tree climbing weather. We have shot for a while now and we are coming to a wrap, Time for one more. Palya Bea and our camera Woman Csepeli Eszter climb a cherry blossom… Bea and Eszter sitting in a tree, S – I – N – G – I – N – G.

Calling the airport, checking the weather, windy rainy every day they say, but it had to be that day, the only day that Bea was available. And of course that was the only day with perfect weather. We went for something stripped down, just Bea and the birds at the foot of the old Castle in Budapest’s first district. Throw in a little voodoo magic from our operator Eszter Csepeli and you get this very pink session… All untouched footage, its amazing what a little coloured cloth and glass can do.

We put Alba and her band In the basement of the 1.2.Z. Studios in downtown Budapest, (just round the corner from the national opera house). Since the musicians were far apart from each other we tried to use makeshift systems so they could hear themselves play, no easy feat in a long thin stone hallway. We had spent the week collecting cables and televisions, now it was time to get it all right, all the way through in one shot. The band and the steadicam all performing live. Alba Hyseni and company provide a rendition of ‘Adieu’ from her new album “Innermission”. Erdély Mátyás creates beautiful images with nothing more than a handful of domestic light bulbs and a couple of tube lamps. All this from a dream I had involving a cable monster…

Shot in 2010 with the Singas Project (as they stood at the time). We are deep deep underground in the eternal construction site for Budapest’s fourth Metro line. Its a big hole and it probably costs a pretty penny. You know they’ve been digging us in for ever and ever. Not a bad metaphor for these economic times…. Merry Crisis and happy New Fear

The first Anormal Session, We shot this back in early 2010. This moment was captured deep deep underground, in the construction site of Budapest’s fourth Metro. A camera, a flash light and the Singas Project (in its configuration at the time) fronted by Dalma Berger…. Everyone needs a partner in crime!