Phosphorescent, the venture of Matthew Houck, has shared the official music video for “The World Is Ending,” a spotlight from his current album Revelator.
The video, directed by Danny Dunlop, matches the music’s contemplative spirit with Houck exploring a blown-out, seemingly post-apocalyptic setting amidst twirling, oblivious dancers.
Of the video, Houck says: “It was an actual pleasure to work with filmmaker Danny Dunlop on this video. We had been in contact and I had shared with him this imaginative and prescient I had of a dreamy, unsure panorama — an city wasteland of rubble and spoil with revelers waltzing among the many particles, among the many remnants of some former glamour[.] Phosphorescent was about to move out on tour at the moment and as luck would have it we had been scheduled with a break day precisely as we might be passing by means of Danny’s hometown close to Toronto in simply a few weeks[.]
“So Danny got to work and scouted a location and sourced dancers and crew and set decor and grip etc. And so when the day came we met up in the late afternoon in the top floor of a tall crumbling warehouse, a place on its way to being reclaimed by nature where perfectly preserved skeletons of birds laid peacefully among the broken glass[.] And in a few hours had filmed something I think is quite beautiful[.] I hope you enjoy it[.] Xo, Matthew.”
Phosphorescent has additionally revealed his work doing the rating for Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada movie, out in theaters now through Kino Lorber.
Oh, Canada stars Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, and Jacob Elordi. It follows legendary filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), nonetheless a power to be reckoned with regardless of his age and declining well being, who needs to inform his life story, unfiltered, earlier than it’s too late.
