Conversationalist (Official Music Video) - Isobel Knight
A lover tries to outrun their fears down King Street. We all know how that goes.
This is the official music video for Isobel Knight's song 'Conversationalist' from her album 'Here Now', which debuted at number 5 in the independent album charts. 'Conversationalist' is about sitting across from someone and trying to figure out where they go when they're lost in their own head, and this video shows where they are in this specific instance - running from (and eventually facing) the fears that follow them around in order to be open to love.
'Conversationalist' the short film was only possible because of the time, skill. effort and love of a killer list of collaborators:
THE VIDEO
Director: Sophie Hawkshaw
DOP: Rebekah Hawkey
Producer/1st AD: Rosie Whatmuff
Focus Puller: Matt Bedford
2AC: Evelyn Wong
Editor: Jordan Swioklo
Colourist: Nicholas Andrews
Choreographer: Emily Yali
MUA: Lillian Runge
Stunt Co-ordinator: Sam Bailey
Catering: Lucy Knight, James Monoghan and Christen Fernando
THE CAST
The Lover: Isobel Knight
The Fears: Emily Yali, Alia Sharp and Esther Lukins
The Hens: Eunice Wong, Maizy Coombes and Mariama Whitton
The Bartender: Jono Lukins
The Pub Patrons: Alice Knight, Lillian Runge
THE SONG
Music and Lyrics + performance by Isobel Knight
Additional performances from Pete, Dave, Nic and Rachel
Engineered and mixed by Bob Mallory at Paste Magazine Studios, NYC
Mastered by Alex de Turk
With huge thanks to The Botany View Hotel and St Barnabas' Broadway for sharing their spaces with us.
'Conversationalist' was shot and edited on Gadigal land, where the Gadigal people of the Eora nation have been living, telling stories and working for thousands of years. Sovereignty was never ceded; this always was and always will be aboriginal land.
