Old satellites
hd hausmann
Director: Nicholas Jones
Assistant director: Fabien Babonneau
Actor: Joseph Rogers
About:
“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”
Paul Tillich
In the run up to the release of their debut album hd hausmann present this video for ‘Old Satellites’, produced and directed by short film and documentary maker Nicholas Jones. His film 57degrees North – a poignant insight into the traditional island lifestyle of John Jo MacDonald, a 67 year old fisherman – received official selections for many global film festivals, as well as winning Nicholas the Cinematographer of the Month prize for The Monthly Film Festival. His latest short film, A World For Her, is screening at the London Short Film Festival.
“Upon listening to and reading the lyrics for ‘Old Satellites’, I was struck by the idea of a person trying to grasp back control and I decided I wanted to represent this with the idea of loneliness in contrast to solitude. These days we rarely get a chance to be alone and appreciate the benefits of solitude. We are inundated by information, technology and people, feeling lost when we don’t have access to the world through our phones or social media. Our everyday lives can be overwhelming, seeking out solitude could be a path to understanding ourselves and others.
This film juxtaposes images of claustrophobic crowds against isolation in nature, in an attempt to analyse that no matter how many people are around us, if we don't know ourselves, we are ultimately alone.”