Austin Peters avoids the obvious Lynchian references, but certainly breaks down the fourth wall in his video for Bastille’s Laura Palmer, as the performance element of the video comes to an abrupt halt when a gang of quad bike-riding young outcasts invade the set and abduct the band’s mainman Dan Smith…
While commissioner James Hackett gets on camera doing a good job at looking worried, Dan gets taken off by the teen quad bike gang and holed up back at their base – the video was shot in Thousand Oaks, California – until Patty Hearst-style Stockholm Syndrome sets in…
Bastille
Laura Palmer
Director: Austin Peters
Prod co: Forever Pictures
Producer: Ross Levine
DoP: Jackson Hunt
Art director: Tyler Jensen
HMU: Candice Birns
Editor: Taylor Ward
Colourist: Mikey Rossiter
Post house (grade): The Mill
Commissioner: James Hackett
Label: EMI