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Katatonia: Day and Then the Shade

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Katatonia

Day and Then the Shade

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"Had been watching a lot of Jan Svankmajer, Andrei Tarkovsky (especially 'The Mirror'), The Quay Brothers - not to mention a bunch of David Lynch - around the time I got a call if I would be interested in doing a clip for Katatonia's 'Day and Then the Shade' so being under the influence of surreal dreamy disturbingly cool images the answer was immediate, YES, a marriage of all those wonderful worlds seemed most fitting to the abstract nature of Katatonia's lyrical universe.

"The band had decided they didn't want a typical performance genre video and was going to sit this one out (which always makes things a little more harder but also the more challenging). We ended up with the idea 'finding beauty in darkness' like a surreal dream which starts out nice but ends with a nightmare (the best and interesting dreams always plays out that way) and of course capture the light and shadows of the song.

"To give it that 'quirky' stop motion look (like Brothers Quay and Svankmajer) I shot most of it on still images and think we ended up with well over 30.000 hi res stills and a bunch of video material over a two day period. First time I've shot anything in that way - good experimental fun I tell you. Katatonia have done some of the best dark melancholic music about sadness, loss and beauty that makes you happy and the new album was no exception (I would say their best to date!).

"We had an extremely short turn around for this video, I think when the go-ahead came there was 3 weeks from start to finish, and the forecast was rain and more rain with a possibility of snow/frost, the poor girls almost froze to death but we all had a lot of fun doing it - all survived." - Lasse Hoile (Director/producer)