Hold Still

The story

A performance video for a solo singer, shot as one slow push-in on his face across the full length of the song. I wrote the treatment as a single push-in timed to the song’s structure, then worked with the artist on a performance that could hold for four minutes without a cut.

CLIENT

Elias Crane

YEAR

2026

DELIVERABLES

Creative Direction Treatment Art Direction

ROLE

Creative Director

Behind the scenes

The song is about staying put, so the idea was to give the audience nowhere else to look.

A person taking a picture of a person on a cell phone
grayscale photo of woman wearing necklace and top
Two men with a camera at an event
woman in black V-neck shirt
woman in white long sleeve shirt and red pants singing on stage
grayscale photography of man in crew-neck shirt
grayscale photography of man wearing shirt
A silhouette of a person in a flat cap speaking into a handheld microphone
man wearing blue button-up shirt on black background
a man in a black suit
man in black crew neck shirt
a man standing in front of a circular light
man in blue dress shirt singing
woman wearing blue lipstick
man singing on the microphone
Woman in black dress with arms outstretched
woman wearing black crew-neck top
woman in black tank top
a group of people standing around a camera set up
A film crew working on a large soundstage with lighting equipment and cameras

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