alt-j | pleader short film

Their third album Relaxer was a real hit, picking up a nomination for this year’s Mercury Music Prize, and now alt-J have shared the video for their latest single off the LP ‘Pleader’. The short film, directed by Isaiah Seret and shot in the Rhonda Valley in South Wales, follows the story of a mining family, and whilst that might not sound super exciting, the video itself is cinematic and matches the hymn-like track perfectly. As singer and guitarist Joe Newman said, “When we set out to make a video for ‘Pleader’, Joe sent the following one line brief to director Isaiah Seret: ‘a Welsh mining love story; a tidal wave of earth.’ What Isaiah came back with was an epic short film, inspired both by the song’s source material and Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice.”

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