I’d wanted to work with Erin forever. So when she called—lukewarm about a video she’d just shot and edited, and desperate with a “Can you do something with this?”—I pounced. Thank you, Erin, for letting me tear it apart like a kid going wild with scissors and paper dolls. Here’s what came out of the chaos.
~Rob
Winner
Best Music Video
Picasso Einstein Buddha
Intl Film Festival
2022
Nominated
Best Intl Music Video
X World Short Film Festival
2022
Winner
Award of Recognition
Accolade Competition
2021
Nominated
Best Short
NYC WebFest
2021
accolades
reviews
"Eleanor Rigby" is a sad song about a lonely death. Thus it can be said to skirt the edges of horror, a genre obsessed with the prospect and process of dying.
Harpist Erin Hill's new music video, a cover of this old Beatles tune, emphasizes the song's darker elements. In it, Hill wanders through graveyards, walking amid stoic, almost catatonic people who might be phantoms or ghosts. They stand or walk near each other yet never look into one another's eyes. All are isolated in their own spaces, unaware and unconnected.
A vast full moon against a starry night sky adds to the horror iconography. As with a Dario Argento film, the cinematography and production design cooperate in conveying vibrant colors and creating vivid contrasts. It all helps to create a mood that's beautiful, melancholy, and haunting."
~Thomas M. Sipos, Hollywood Investigator
