Watch Florence + The Machine’s Short Film The Odyssey
If Beyoncé’s Lemonade has you hungry to see more big pop albums turned into experimental short films, Florence + The Machine have your back. Ever since she announced the album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful last year, Florence Welch has been working with the director Vincent Haycock on a series of sweeping, cinematic, cryptic music videos for songs from the album. The pair have made six videos, and many of them are very good. As it turns out, all those videos were component parts of The Odyssey, a 47-minute short film from the duo. The Odyssey also includes connective bits and a final scene set to the song “Third Eye.” You can watch the final piece of it below.
As Pitchfork points out, Welch had this to say about the project:
This is the finale of a very personal project that came from a conversation me and Vince had in the Chateau Marmont about a year and a half ago while I was writing How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. I was talking to him about the record and the car crash of a relationship break up I was going through. The highs and the lows of love and performance, how out of control I felt, the purgatory of heartbreak, and how I was trying to change and trying to be free. And we decided we would re-tell this story in full.
You can watch the whole thing at Florence’s site.