A Welsh mining love story; a tidal wave of earth.
From their new album “Relaxer“, indie-rock band Alt-J give an epic visual treatment to their track ‘Pleader’.
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. A family must pit their desire to have a child against the knowledge that this would destroy their community. The hypnotic, hymnal quality of the song binds the video throughout, hinting at redemption while destruction takes place.