A queer lens on modern queries
This promo for Aish Divine’s track Common Questions takes a peppy, pastel-hued intersectional view of the queer and non-binary dating app culture.
Credits
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- Production Company Velocity Creatives
- Director Jessica Batson
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Velocity Creatives
- Director Jessica Batson
- Producer Natalie Schwan
- Art Director Jaclyn Gramigna
- DP Joe Martinez Jr
- Editor Samantha Smith
- Audio Engineer Jay Pellizzi
- Colorist Josh Bohoskey
Credits
powered by- Production Company Velocity Creatives
- Director Jessica Batson
- Producer Natalie Schwan
- Art Director Jaclyn Gramigna
- DP Joe Martinez Jr
- Editor Samantha Smith
- Audio Engineer Jay Pellizzi
- Colorist Josh Bohoskey
Online dating can be fun, but frustrating, whatever your gender or sexual orientation – insulting questions, casually prejudiced demands, endless dick pics – by which we mean a lot of them, not images of overlong appendages.
This video directed by Jessica Batson, and produced by Brooklyn-based Velocity Creatives, sees Divine and a diverse troupe of dancers express the song's feelings about the race, power, gender, age dynamics of apps such as Grindr. Making the point that, whatever our peccadillos, we're all just seeking a little tenderness.
Divine specifically wanted a female director and a predominately female crew with gender non-conforming dancers. The Telly Award-winning video is set in a minimalist urban wasteland, with washed-out neutral tones that exquisitely set off the mouth-watering colour of the dancers’ costumes and make-up. And there's some nail art to die for, too.