Berlin-based duo Lea Porcelain return with a gorgeously shot video for their single ‘Future Hurry Slow’. Directed by Lea Porcelain themselves along with Manu Ruge, the story revolves around three individuals all seemingly in their own world with little interaction, although technically occupying the same space. Singer Markus Nikolaus performs the song on stage whilst actress Alessandra Denegri plays a tormented woman sitting at a dinner table, watching the show. Producer Julien Bracht plays the role of a butler serving the woman but never says a word. Eventually Denegri breaks down crying on the floor…alone.
In a press statement regarding the song and video, Lea Porcelain wrote:
“In times of momentary unsureness, where everyone lives within their own orbit, in their own time, own space, own reality, own thoughts, own depression, own luck, in brightest moments and deepest sorrows about the fact that happiness has no value, if it can’t be shared. We want to remind you that time is all we have.
Our perception of time, is so relative, we have to constantly make ourselves conscious of it.
Time cannot be stopped, the presence can’t be paused, the future not fast forwarded, the past not be rewinded, ever. Time doesn’t stand still. If it does, then only for a moment.
We can’t grasp it but we can build it a place in our memory. Stuck, in the evanescence of time. Always building, the persistence of memory.
Sometimes the future can’t come fast enough,
If all things must pass. Let yourself be reminded. Time cannot be stopped but let the future, when it comes, let it hurry. Hurry, slowly. While we are all trying to be here.
Be here and now.
The video we shot is about 3 people staying very much in their own orbit too. One person is servicing, one is consuming and one is performing. Those 3 types are basically covering most types of our society. Everyone is existing in their own reality but all have to rely on each other to co-exist. Like a puzzle needs all pieces to exist fully. We all need another. Now more than ever. And we are all one, stuck on this globe, bound into the element of time, intertwined in romance, melancholy and art. We feel another and are nothing more than a group collectors of of happy-sad moments in time.”