WETRANSFER / WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to Work In Progress.
A music series based on the depths of artistic vision that can be reached through placing vulnerability and collaboration at the forefront of the creative process.
Work In Progress was born from the idea that creativity rarely occurs in a vacuum.
From creative soulmates in Björk and Jesse Kanda to a pan-Asian music collective trying to break new ground in 88Rising, we explored how artists can fuse different individual talents, energies and experiences to synthesize something wholly new.
As one of the creatives tasked with conceiving and executing the vision of this project, our process embodied the spirit of this series by allowing me to work with a mix of stand out talent from the directors and crew that brought this all to life to the superlative subjects who were kind enough to participate.
Björk
The pilot episode explored the friendship, collaboration, and creative kismet between Björk and visual artist Jesse Kanda. They collaborated on two of her most daring and visually raw music videos, Mouth Mantra and Arisen My Senses.
The short film was an intimate snapshot of what drew these iconoclasts together and how they naturally found a creative twin flame in one another.
Production Company: Pi Studios
Director: Vivek Vadoliya
Executive Producer: Ravi Amaratunga Hitchcock
Director of Photography: Ben Marshal / Jack Reynolds
Camera Assistant: Laura Seward
Producer: Alex Whiting
Production Manager: Kim Buttery
Art Direction: Hannah James
Location Manager: Álfheiður Marta Kjartansdóttir, Alfreð Gíslason
Editor: Matt Kitchin
Edit Assistant: Rosemarie Hugill
Visual Identity and Title Design WeTransfer Studio
Sound Recordist: Benedikt Örn Árason Sound Mix: Ben Bell
Post Producer: Alice Lewis
Colorist: Karoline@CHEAT
Lykke Li
If great art comes from great pain, Lykke Li may have had precisely the proper fuel to create her magnum opus. As she endeavored to write her fourth album, so sad so sexy, she dealt with the loss of her longtime love and trusted collaborator, the death of her mother, and the birth of her first child.
Our film was a window into how one navigates the process of creativity while also traversing the depths of pain, grief, and love and how an artist can ultimately become fueled by it all.
Project Manager: Danielle Boelling
Directors: Kaj Jefferies / Alice Lewis
Producer: Alice Lewis
Executive Producer: Ravi Amaratunga Hitchcock
Director of Photography: Ben Coughlan
1st AC: Mike Lindforth
Loader: Fran Amoroso
Local Producer: Johann Zollitsch
Production Director: Kim Buttery
Account Director: Alanna Southgate
Runner: Alexander Fejer
Translator: Nina Kahn
Additional Footage: Matt Van Gasbeck
Production Company: Pi Studios
88rising
88rising is a Pan-Asian music collective that doesn’t ascribe to most traditional musical categorizations. A global rap collective that has redefined what Asian artists can achieve in the US music landscape, successfully starting their own festival at a time when large-scale music fests were deemed “dead” and they continue to surprise with their unexpected brand collaborations and irreverent side projects.
More than anything, this film allowed us to watch how they navigated a complicated diasporic dynamic and balanced so many different voices to create art that’s more than the sum of its individual creative parts.
Executive Producer: Ravi Amaratunga Hitchcock
Producer: Alice Lewis
Production Manager: Kim Buttery
Director: João Retorta
Director of Photography: Trevor Wineman
Producer: Jon Mealing
1st AC: Erick Aguilar
2nd AC: Brian Austin
Production Assistant: Eve Burton
Executive Producer: Flo Clive / Hannah Gracie
EVO FILMS
Executive Producer: Matthew Green
Line Producer: Josiah Bultema
Production Assistant: Julian Matulich
Intern: Christina Mac Eachin
Editor: Charlie Reddie at Homespun
Edit Assistant: Finn White-Thompson
Audio Mixer: David Ross
Sound Mix: Gus Collins at House of Noise
Colorist: Tim Smith at Electric Theatre
Visual Identity & Title Design: WeTransfer Studio
