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Mild Minds – Walls (ft. Boats)

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From director Colin Read and Mild Minds comes Walls, a mesmerizing film that pulls at the heartstrings as a father searches for his daughter in an endless city.  

As a young man and his teenage daughter walk through streets and neighborhoods, cross underpasses and bed down in abandoned lots, a story of movement, migration, and fear comes to a head. The pair are separated, and they run through the nearly-empty cityscape, the only signs of other people are the flashing lights of cop cars. 

The incredible, marvelous effects in this film are what really make it stand out. Yes, the performances by the father-daughter acting team are heart-wrenching, but the way that frames are made and mis-matched in order to create walls, borders, and boundaries, is really stunning. The visual of these overlaid and misplaced places create a sense of claustrophobia and fear. They fold in on themselves, turning you around, an apt and forceful metaphor for displacement. 

The vision of the band and the director was so deftly realized in Walls that you sometimes forget that this is a music video and not an art film - probably because Read did the VFX himself. The digital walls form alleys and back streets, and it’s easy to get lost in the continually scrolling journey of family displacement and distortion.

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