I'm super proud to share the music video for Nummer 2, taken from Anne Müller debut album Heliopause. The record is published by Erased Tapes.
I co-directed this with @simon-duong under our new directing duo name Faux Soleil. This project took us countless months to craft and I hope you'll enjoy it's meditative nature as well as Anne's powerful music.
It has recently been selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick! I want to address my deepest thanks to all the artists and producers at Eddy and Brunch Studio who helped us bring this to life. I also want to thank Erased Tapes and Anne for trusting us with this larger than life music video.
You can watch it on Vimeo (better compression quality) or on YouTube.
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Male impersonators and women who performed in men's clothes of the later 19th and early 20th century in America and Europe
Gladys Bentley - a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance and out lesbian who brought her own unique spin to male impersonation
Vesta Tilley - a music hall performer and was England's highest earning women in the 1890s
Josephine Baker - first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture – Zouzou (1934) and was bisexual
Renate Müller - famous actress in the 1930s
Marlene Dietrich - stage and film actress and singer who helped Jewish people escape during World War 2 and was said to be bisexual
Jackie 'Moms' Mabley - one of the first gay and female stand up comedians, performed her lesbian based stand up routines in a suit and tie
Ella Wesner - a popular Vaudeville performer during the Gilded Age
Bessie Bonehill - one of the most wealthy performers during her time, a Vaudeville performer and singer
Anne Hindle - the first to do male impersonation in the United States
Those whose sexuality is not listed were assumedly straight, which was not uncommon of the women doing male impersonation, though the audience they attracted were largely lesbians
[ID: 5 quotes, which each reads as follows, 1: “What I wouldn’t give to be in Church this Sunday / Listening to the choir, so heartfelt, all singing / God loves you, but not enough to save you.” 2: “Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.” 3: “Theseus- Threats are no use, the gods don’t care. / Herakles- Gods are stubborn, so am I.” 4: “I am the knife which will slaughter Heaven. Heaven is full of blood. Soon it will snow.” 5: “I am not rebelling against my God, I simply ‘don’t accept his world.’” Alyosha suddenly smiled a forced smile.” End ID.]
God Has Not Saved Us | Sun Bleached Flies, Ethel Cain | The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky | Herakles, Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) | Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome, Heiner Müller
Alex Høgh Andersen & Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen at Paris Fashion Week yesterday, via Anne Mette Müller's Instagram stories. (Thank you so much to the anon who found these!)