HOOVERPHONIC and Oscar Shortlisted, London based director Matthias Lebeer release a long form music ‘film’ for the band’s new single 'Looking For Stars'. With HOOVERPHONIC’s history of film partnerships, including Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty, collaborating with Matthias on a short film was a natural progression.

In the film the band are on a post gig mission to find one last drink before sleep and stumble into a wild party in the desert which quickly gets out of control. Sugar cube shooting, Gonzo filming, police raids, and murder all feature in this extraordinary Tarantino-esque piece.

The band explains that the Looking For Stars album is really a bespoke playlist with each track telling its own unique story: “With Looking for Stars the single, the story is the defining struggle of youth: between freedom and conformity and the dark places that can take you. We wanted to find a way to place the listener in the centre of that psychological maelstrom. We’re film obsessed so we thought f*ck it let’s try to tell this story through film as well as music. We loved working with Matthias in the past on our video for “One Two Three”. He’s so conceptual, and wild and out there, he was the perfect choice to collaborate with on this one.”

Matthias commented: “Although I was given total free rein by the band, the treatment I wrote became a launchpad for an intense creative partnership. Sound design in and around the track itself was extremely important here and the process of creating new music for the intro and outro of the film became really intense. We were filming just outside of Athens at an old, abandoned airport, eating, sleeping, drinking, dancing, creating together 24hrs a day. It was a hinterland space and they force you to enter a kind of liminal world that’s something more than three dimensional, with more texture and that’s exactly where we wanted to take the audience through this film.”

Using costume and fashion as a means of identity transmission is a central trope of youth culture and a key element of the film. In order to achieve a sense of futurism, internationalism and otherworldliness the cast’s costumes are all unique pieces by young greek designers sourced by Costume Designer Vina Neofotistou from elite Greek fashion academies.

The band wear Dolce & Gabbana exclusively and their fashion ties are hinted at in the last scene where the band literally catwalk out of the mayhem, heads held high, wrists handcuffed.

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