Kelsie Kimberlin - We Are The Promise - Official Video 4K - #StandWithUkraine

The concept for this video began in 2017 when I finished a demo version of the song and sent it to the great Ukrainian composer and film director Sergiy Krutsenko in Kyiv. He wrote an orchestral score and brought in the Kyiv Radio Symphony Orchestra to play it. He then invited me to Ukraine to film the video in an epic production at a former Soviet prison camp and a centurys’ old castle. The filming was both grueling and exhilarating. The story is about a dystopian society where music is banned and musicians are executed for violating the “law of silence.“ I play the role of the protagonist musician who, like a guerrilla leader, opposes the dictator while his zombified army constantly tries to stop me but I always get away at the last second. This story is not only a metaphor for the actions of authoritarian regimes around the world, such as Russia, but it foretold, in a sense, the 2022 full invasion of Ukraine and the fleeing of the targeted Russian opposition. And the lyrics of the song are