While Foals perform in an Eastern European hotel bar, life goes on in the rooms upstairs in Nabil Elderkin’s gripping video for Late Night. In fact, the brass tacks of human existence are played out in this intense, unflinching, highly cinematic work – a couple make love, a woman gives birth and an auto-erotic suicide happen simultaneously, within a few feet of each other…
It was shot in Bucharest, Romania, as was Nabil’s previously released video, for The Weeknd (although it was actually shot before that video). This is more visceral and less psychological than some of his other recent work, but with his handling of narrative becoming more adroit with each outing, no wonder Hollywood is now beckoning for Nabil…
Foals
Late Night
Label: Warner Bros
Director: Nabil
Producer: Liz Kessler
Prod co: A+
Romania producer: Ileana Anghel @ Domino Pro
DoP: Matyas Erdely
Editor: Isaac Hagy
Production designer: Carmen Dima
Grade: Aubrey Woodiwiss @ The Mill
Post: The Mill London
Post producer: Luis Martin
2D: Joe Tang
Matte painter: Kieran Belshaw
Commissioner: Tara Richardson at Qprime, Jennifor Ivory at Warner Music UK
Watch: here