Shortlist HIGH ALONE Music Videos: Craft: Direction

CLIENT/BRANDJACKSON WANG

PRODUCTION COMPANYPARTIZAN

DIRECTOR(S)RODRIGO INADA

PRODUCER(S)JACKSON FORSYTHE / SARA NIX / PEGAH FARAHMAND

AGENCY88 RISING

DOPPIERRE DE KERCHOVE

INSTAGRAM TAG @RODRIGOINADA @WEAREPARTIZAN

SHORT SYNOPSIS RODRIGO INADA DIRECTS A DRAMATIC BLOCKBUSTER FOR HONG KONG RAPPER - AND MEMBER OF SOUTH KOREAN BOYBAND GOT7 - JACKSON WANG.

THE VIDEO FOR HIGH ALONE EXPLORES THE DUALITY PRESENT IN ALL OF US, MANIFESTING IN TWO VERSIONS OF JACKSON WANG ON SCREEN: AS HE BATTLES HIS DARKER SELF IN HIS APARTMENT, INADA PRESENTS A BIG SETPIECE WITH JACKSON AS A HOUDINI-STYLE ESCAPOLOGIST SUNK INTO A GLASS BOX.

THE LATTER HAS A TRAUMATIC AND HUGELY SYMBOLIC OUTCOME: DESPITE ESCAPING HIS SHACKLES, JACKSON IS TRAPPED UNDERWATER IN THE GLASS BOX, TO THE DELIGHT OF THE AUDIENCE OF ONLOOKERS.

INFUSED WITH A DEEP RED AND BLUE COLOUR PALETTE AND A GRIMY, TEXTURAL AESTHETIC, THIS IS A CINEMATIC VISION, A POWERUL ADDITION TO WANG'S VIDEOGRAPHY - AND ARGUABLY A VERY TOUGH WATCH FOR HIS LEGION OF FANS.