Filmmaker Statement

The band laceleaf approached us about doing a music video for their song "Stay" off their debut album "Richie". We were blown away by the song and decided to go all in on a high concept short film to represent the song. The band's initial idea was to do a video of the lead singer walking down the street singing the song in a single take then ending up at the rock show, we toyed with that idea, and also considered doing the whole shot in reverse like that Spike Jonze Pharcyde video. At some point though, we really wanted to have a stronger narrative and we went back to the lyrics and thought about the imagery of the first few lines about waking up with your partner and wanting to stay in that moment forever, so we were thinking about that, then we were like, how can we make this more unique? and that's when we decided to have the partner be a dog, so then we were like ok, this person wakes up with their dog...but it's dead.