Exploded View - Orlando (Official Music Video)

Taken from their self-titled debut album ’Exploded View’, out now. New band from Berlin & Mexico City fronted by Anika. Production Company: The Gate RAW Directors: Grandmas DOP: Paul Mortlock 1st AC: Sandra Coulson Producer: Gemma Gold Spark: Michael J. Bonnar DIT: Jazz Rivans Statement from Exploded View: The song “Orlando” was written at the end of 2014, and its video was completed shortly before the terrible events in Orlando, FL, in the early hours of June 12th, when the most deadly mass shooting in the United States shook the country, the world and the queer community to its core, as the targets were clearly chosen, simply for being who they were, conducted in a space that has traditionally been one of protection, a safe haven for the queer community for decades: the dance floor. Quoting from Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel Orlando: a Biography (1928), “Life, it sings, or croons rather, like a kettle on a hob, Life, life what art thou?”, as the mai