Oliver Spalding
EPOCH
Music Video - 2018
Directed by Jorik Dozy & Sil van der Woerd
Several children find themselves awake in the middle of the night in a world that is slowly falling apart.
Epoch serves as a statement on the current state of our world and how we will leave it for our children.
Producer Sean Lin
"The video touches on themes like over consumption, climate change and letting the next generations inherit a broken world."
'Epoch' charters the story of the world slowly dying, having been neglected by irresponsible adults, and leaving the children to face the consequences. The video shows the children running through the streets in search of answers as buildings start to collapse around them – all this while, the adults are sound asleep.
Studio Birthplace directors Jorik Dozy and Sil van der Woerd set out to make a video about climate change, the story of our time. We wanted to show the nightmare version of our future world that will be if we, the adults, don’t wake up.
The video was shot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where producer Sean Lin spent many nights scouting the perfect locations for the derelict world that we envisioned.
The final moments of Epoch depict a chunk of dense city adrift in the ocean, with buildings breaking off its edge that plummet into the rising water, referring to the melting of the polar ice caps.
For this, we completely re-created the Malaysian buildings and streets digitally, in great detail:
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