Watch Twin Temple's 'Doomed Lovers' Video
(The Syndicate) Twin Temple unveil the cinematically spectacular video for "Doomed Lovers," the title-track single from their upcoming Shooter Jennings produced third album, DOOMED LOVERS. Directed by underground analog filmmakers Dante Capone and Fred Joseph on 16mm film.
Discussing the video Twin Temple's AlexandraJames offers: "'Doomed Lovers', to us, carries both a Saturnian darkness and a watery, Venusian beauty. The feeling of light shimmering across the surface of an endless black sea. I had a recurring vision of our last day as lovers on a forsaken Earth: waiting for the world to end, with nothing left but each other and imminent doom upon the horizon.
"It was important to us that the video feel like something unearthed rather than manufactured, so we shot the entire video on 16mm film with Dante Capone and Fred Joseph, who used classic Hollywood optical effects and in-camera double exposure techniques. There's something imperfect and fleeting about film that felt essential to the story, like a lost memory of a world that is already disappearing.
"The ocean became the central metaphor. It represents wonder and the unknown, immense power and terrible beauty, and a sense of grandeur- the kind of beauty that swallows you whole. In that way, it felt like love itself. Vast, seductive, dangerous, and ultimately impossible to contain.
"We folded in some ritual Magick, nods to Occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and the echoes of the Beach Boys singing about surfer girls along the coast. We hope the result is a kind of beautiful lover's nightmare."
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