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JANUARY (Stalactite Mix by Max Plank) by CALENDAR GIRL 

 

The video for January features a surreal battle between two seasons, portrayed by Tamara (Autumn) and "Mr Strange" (Winter). Mr Strange is like Death, while Autumn is the slow act of dying. Where one ends and the other begins is the grey area featured in the video. The video will be shot in black and white.

 

We first meet Tamara being dragged through the undergrowth in a forest by an unseen person. We cut to other shots of Tamara opening windows in an old house with woods outside and touching a blank wall that becomes alive with images.  

 

Now I'm really levitating

Tamara begins to rise off the floor

 

Dreams get stuck in my eyelashes 

A close-up of Tamara's eyes with dewdrops caught in her eyelashes like moisture on a spider's web.  

 

...Give me loveliness 

A multi-layered image of Tamara singing this line. 

 

Cut with shots of tree roots winding into the ground and lightbulbs flickering. 

 

Mr Strange has taken Tamara to grungy room with a long table in it. He sits at one end, Tamara sits at the other. A weird psychological battle commences with each season representing death and last gasps of life trying to gain the upper hand. 

 

First Tamara makes multiple copies of herself who sit around the table. Mr Strange counters that with multiple images of himself. 

 

As Tamara, with a transparent veil over her head, makes movements with her hands, Mr Strange mirrors them, blocking her power. 

 

Tamara finds herself in an empty room, wearing a long white dress in the middle of a large pool of blood. The blood begins to creep up the dress. 

 

Tamara sings the words to the song with her face obscured by tracing paper, so that only a blurred face is recognisable.

 

Finally Tamara crawls along the table to Mr Strange, who appears perplexed as if expecting a trick. He bursts into flames. He smiles. 

 

Tamara wakes up in the woods. The battle is over.