LOVEBIRDS
During quarantine, my father gave me the opportunity to make the visuals for one of his song. This project is about the loneliness and pain of being far from our loved ones. It explores a dystopian society where everyone is captive and separated.
THE IDEA
Lovebirds is first of all a love song that tells the story of a man kept away from the woman he loves. It illustrates true loneliness, the consequences of physical and mental isolation. The man is trapped in a Brutalist structure which represent a world he doesn’t believe in anymore, a world lacking purpose. While he’s singing for a way out of his prison, the visuals depict metaphorically the drifts of our modern society.
marketing
Lovebirds was such meaningful to us that we wanted the project to be part of a whole. To do so, we produced a poster, visuals for social networks and a teaser with an exclusive soundtrack as we didn’t want to reveal too much of the song.
We decided to release the project on march 12th, the one year anniversary of the lock-down in Belgium.
To do things right, we created Harmonized Pictures, a fictive company that embodies our collaboration. My father’s making music, I’m making visuals and every project features a title sequence with sound design.
THE TEASER
THE POSTER
The idea behind the poster was to contrast the lovely title with the horrific visual. As we didn’t plan to print it, I wanted to make the visual dirty as if it had been displayed for a long time in the street.
VARIANTS
VISUALS
BEHIND THE SCENE
Lovebirds took about nine months to complete. Here’s a glimpse into my creative process.
PROcESS
CUT FRAMES
A lot of work didn’t make it to the final edit, here are the cut frames I like the most.
post mortem
Interview in L’asymptomatique
Featured in the Unreal community spotlight
Selected for the 2021 national VKRS festival
INFOS
CREDITS
DESIGN: Arthur Tasquin
MUSIC: Philippe Tasquin
YEAR
2021