BARKING DOGS SELDOM BITE @gabrielgifford is officially yours. Watch now (link in our bio)
In creating Barking Dogs Seldom Bite, Gabriel aimed to capture pure distress, an unfiltered eruption of emotion previously concealed behind his music. Beneath its coarse textures, the track presents a more tender narrative on mental health. Gabriel became fixated on the ‘Black Dog’ as a metaphor for depression—a figure also rooted in East Anglian folklore, where he was raised. The song playfully references other old English idioms, reinterpreting them in a depressive, mournfully sentimental context.
The video, shot at Hackney’s MOTH Club—a venue originally formed to support former servicemen—draws inspiration from a ‘cult-like’ experience Gabriel had at a local spiritualist church with his father, months before his suicide. A surreal experience that seemed to reflect the nuance and eccentricity of community, mental health, and the supernatural. The video explores these themes with a contemporary lens. The cast of Seirian Griffiths, Caterina Danzico, Genevieve Reeves, and Tia May Hockey each performing iterations of their ‘dog’ - a physical manifestation of the characters individual demons and trauma.
ARTIST: GABRIEL GIFFORD @gabrielgifford
PROD CO: THE CORNER SHOP @thecornershop.tv
DIRECTOR: NODE @node_tv
PRODUCER: KATIE SCOTT @westcoastkslice
MOVEMENT: KAT COLLINGS @killthekat
DOP: MATT GILLAN @mattgillan
AC: ETAI SHOMRI @etaishomri
STEADYCAM: JAKE WALKER @jakemccleanwalker
STYLIST: MARTÍ VENTURA @msalip
MUA: SOPHIE JONES
TALENT: CATERINA DANZICO @caterinadanzico
TALENT: SEIRIAN GRIFFITHS @5eirian
TALENT: GEN REEVES @genvv
TALENT: TIA MAY HOCKEY @tiamayhockey
EDIT: LORNA SEARL @lornasearl
EDIT HOUSE: TRIM EDITING @trimediting
COLOURIST: VLAD BARIN @vladb.c
POST HOUSE: HARBOR @harborpictureco
VFX: DAYDREAMER @daydreamer.xyz
POST PRODUCER: CHRIS ALLEN
GRAPHICS: BEN GROSS
SPECIAL THANKS: @initiativemusik@mothclub
NOSTALGIA OUT TOMORROW 10.10
@harveycauson forming the idea for Nostalgia around AI samples created from 70’s records, went on to distinguish lyrics backed by his intrigue surrounding dialogue on artificial intelligence. Discovering an article on social media ‘graveyards’, that promoted that there are more people dead online than there are alive users - ushered questions around the ethics of A.I and the commodity of personal data. This track and film reflects on the regurgitative and imposed risks of A.I, impacting the the loss of interest in the nuances of human creativity.
Cracking open the hippocampus of this subject - this brief was a true collaboration between traditional moving image and open source generative adversarial networks. An exercise into our boundaries working with A.I systems and vice versa. As filmmakers, challenging us on how we understand it and how it interoperates us - the tension between flesh and hardware. Bodies in cognition.
Huge thank you to all the day 1’s
@harveycauson@kwa_____@lukedrydendp@jamieoliverlai@steadi_on_pat@lornasearl@absolute_post
As 2023 comes to a close, join us for the @node_tv XMAS PARTY to celebrate our online launch and raise funds for the UNICEF Gaza Appeal on the 18th of December. Tickets free but limited RSVP via the link in our bio. Bring yer mates 🔥
DJ sets from AVENHUE, HARVEY CAUSON, DNLL, EL SHAZLY AND SPECIAL GUESTS.
All donations will be accepted in the venue and entered into a prize draw sponsored by @ojodedios and @bardonalondon
📍 Location:
[Bar Doña, 92 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 7NY]
📅 Date and Time:
December 18th, [18:00 - 23:00]
🎟️ Tickets:
[Free Tickets, 18+]
This one is dropping new music tonight AND playing a gig @ovalspace be sure to snap up the last tickets he never fails to put on the most incredible show @harveycauson 🎶
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Some fun days last year shooting these in the old gaf 🖤
#archives 1. on aluminium substrate
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The images in this series represent our hyper extended use of technology and the psychological, economical and psychoanalytical domains which belong to the cultural issues of the 21st century. A visual allegory for the physicality of our senses, entropy of the elements and a desire to see the world with a certain curiosity beyond the confinements off a screen. Aluminium as a surface when applied to my semi destructive photographic process, reflects the materiality of our technological devices and the volumes of digitally indulgent still imagery we are exposed to on a daily occurrence.
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Aluminium, being the second most popular metal that is industrially used alongside steel is hailed by engineers. The metal provides a significant metaphor about how lightweight devices which are made with this surface, direct contemporary conversations surrounding intersectionality and continues to act as a barrier between us and nature. Thanks again for the crew waiting patiently to drop the collection of these images (I’m shy) x scroll for BTS ✨
Angel 👼🏼@killthekat_
This image was created with the use of a black filter, intense light on the subject, time and breath. Painting shadows and highlights of our environment onto Kat we used white gouache paint & charcoal and giggled like 5 year olds :’) Despite the darkness of the images it was a very light process, 10/10 for acting #experimentin #infrared