Elena told us The Dazzler was a real place, but we wanted to transform it into a hotel of the mind. That lost, sedated limbo you get stuck in when you can’t get over your last relationship.
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Ex:Re is the solo project of Elena Tonra from the band Daughter. It features the legendary Maxine Peake as well as cameos from Elena and her Ex:Re collaborator, Fabian Prynn.
With a colour palette borrowed from Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’, our hotel room becomes a kaleidoscopic vision of a world stuck in an endless loop. Swimming in regret and drowning in thick alcohol.
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Elena appears in the video filtered through the ubiquitous hotel television. This isn’t the first time we’ve boxed a ghostly Elena inside a screen. This idea is a gentle but knowing nod back to the first-ever Daughter video, which we directed in 2013.
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