Embark on a sun-drenched escapade through the lively Australian bush of the Blue Mountains in Paul Salem’s music video for ‘Sun.’
Paul Salem has shared the music video for his latest release, Sun. The video is a collaboration with Mikey Conlon, and was filmed out in the Australian bush of the Blue Mountains. Using a fifty dollar Russian lens, Conlon aimed to capture the sun in a variety of ways.
The effect of the lens was so acute in its fragmenting of the sunlight that the pair decided to shoot the entire film on it.
Opening on Paul sitting on his bed, a blurred view of bush outside his window, we watch him scrawl in his diary before picking up his guitar. It feels like a glimpse into a private moment – as if capturing Salem in the midst of creating Sun.
Whether sitting at the same old piano that was used to record for Sun or hovering in the kitchen, Salem glides through a rural home, the lens focusing on the steam from his tea and offering a variety of close ups on the singer himself.
As was intentional, the sun is always casting a different shadow through the window, obscuring Salem or lighting him up like a spotlight.
As soon as the song picks up in the second verse, Salem steps outside. Donned with sunglasses and his guitar around his neck, the greenery comes into focus as Salem explores his surroundings, grazing his fingers against thin branches and turning a weighted rock over in his hands.
The shift in brightness mirrors change in tempo and energy, the naturist vibrancy a perfect companion to the evolving sound of Sun.
Review by Caitlin Norris
