“Snail” 3:08
“Benee is a new kind of pop star based in New Zealand. She wrote the track ‘Snail’ while trapped in her bedroom during the 2020 lockdown. I loved the crazy world she created with the lyrics, and, together, we collaborated on a narrative that enabled her to escape this reality and transform into a BMX-riding elf. Of course, the video needed to have giant snails too. The video doesn’t feature much, but there were rooms filled with Nickelodeon green slime—we had four full buckets of slime that we smeared inside an abandoned, haunted psychiatric hospital. We had to shoot in partial lockdown, which complicated everything, and I directed with a face mask on—a first and hopefully a last! The final result is a shining example of how I love to mash up live action with CGI graphics to create a surreal mood.”