It all kind of randomly fell together, but was hugely collaborative. It basically started with the idea of “what if Meredith was strapped to the top of a moving car”. So we shot that first. Very fun, very scary. We shot the rest of it at The Refuge, a former monastery thats been turned into an artist collective up in Appleton, Wisconsin. I had just found this wedding dress that was my great great grandmothers, and the director and I were aiming for a weird mix of holiness and hauntedness, to go with the lyrical theme of good and bad. And then the snake just happened to be on the property and I was like “oh, GOTTA play with the snake”.
We sort of just wandered around and when each of us had a hunch for a shot, we went with it. The result is this oddly soothing but spooky mix of images. Guess that’s just our natural inclination.
The blue hues came from Carol, the director, having an obsession with the lighting in Atomic Blonde.