DIRECTOR/DOP: Owain Pennington
CAM: Jon Waller
CAM ASSIST: Lewis Facey
EDIT: Owain Pennington
PRODUCTION: Owain Pennington
Someone Else' is a project I was passionate about before I had ever met the songwriter Jayson Norris. The way we view elderly people is reductive. We see them as slow, passionless people, a burden. A necessity. Hearing his soulful song, 'Someone Else', I knew the story that had to accompany this brilliant Kiwi Artist's song. More than just a Memento mori, this reflective tale questions love, loss and above all life, in all its facets.
With this film, I wanted to raise a simple question - Is the pain of loss, worth the joy of marriage? In the context of that question, sits the crux of this video - this man was once a whole person. Not our idea of an elderly gentleman, someone to nod at walking to the bus stop, someone to watch carefully as they navigate the stairs. But someone who is alive. Someone who is angry, ecstatic, sad, passionate, joyous, mean. Someone who inhabits the full spectrum of emotion, not just a boiled sweet dispenser. Someone who has chosen not to keep it all to themselves, someone who has chosen to open themselves up, and feel the pain that can bring.
Jayson Norris is a singer/songwriter originally from New Zealand, living in London. He combines his love of singer-songwriters, indigenous music and all things rock, together with tones, harmonies and melodies that naturally come from his cultural and musical heritage of New Zealand. Creating his distinct sound of acoustic, roots-rock.