Workin’ against arrests, brutal battles and a looming deadline, the Dickies crew pulled off a Herculean feat finishing up its blockbuster full length. Manderson, Foy, Bils and Joe Face break down the saga from the streets to the premiere
CREW:
Director: Jordan Hemingway
Production Company: Object & Animal
EP/Producer: Morgan Clement
Producer: Sarah Tognazzi
Production Manager: Claire Adcock
Director’s Assistant: Max Gabbay
Production Assistant: Harvey Moore and Michelle Cheung
Production Intern & Talent Liaison: Cali Nice
Production Runner: Archie Bigg-Wither & Nick Woodfield & Holly Hart
1st AD: Julian Richards
2nd AD: Kitty Rajakulasingham
Runner: Cyrus Richards, Zoe Bradley and Brian Githiomi
DOP: Daniel Landin
Focus Puller: Ben Smith
Clapper Loader: Freddie Lathbridge
Camera Trainee: Helena Bermejo
DIT: Paul Swann
Video Playback: Charlie Gibson
Gimbal OP: Daniel Ilabaca
Focus Puller: Merritt Gold
Grip: Daniel Laviada, Wolf Wasserman
Grip Trainee: Tiger Brewer
Head Tech: Steve Hedig
Gaffer: Bill Rae Smith
Spark: Josh Leonard, Grace Mason, Kit Wood, Sam Baker, Ryan Monteith and Tony Iaria
Lighting OP: Hudson Daly
Electrical Rigger: Andy Thompson
Rigger: Tim Petherick and Jack Cullis
Rigging Spark: Rob White, Tony Iaria, Klaudia B, Declan Duffy and Charlie Parker
Production Designer: David Lee
Art Director: Poppy Luard
Art Buyer: Ellie Lewis
Assistant Buyer: Tatyana Eastap-Johnson
Prop Master 1: Alfie Sowden
Prop Master 2: Charlie Britton
Assistant Props 1: Jordan Katz-Kaye
Assistant Props 2: Wing Lock
Art Department Assistant: Harvey Weston
Prop Transport: Jason / Marcus
Construction: George Miller Hoare, Fred Crouch, Jim Simmons, Dan Underwood, Steve Fox, Dan Carter, Fionn Hunter
SFX Company: Arcadia
SFX Supervisor: Alex Gunn
SFX Floor Supervisor: Tony Auger, Martin Auger, Joe Geday, Pedro Canato, Lorraine Pigot
Water Bowser: Kark Wood-Emery, Daren Jones
Stylist: Georgia Pendlebury & Yaz XL
Styling Assistant: Helena Polanska, Maszia Oettgen, Kirsten Humphreys, Enrica Miller, Alexandra Lefevre and Jace May Dobson
Tailor: Kevin Geddes
Costume Designer: Susie Coulthard
Costume Assistant: Lourdes Maria Acera
Seamstress: Lourdes Alvarez
Hair Stylist: Louis Souvestre
Hair Assistant: Allou Zaïzy Babo, Pedro Paiva and Matt Farpy
Makeup Artist: Matilda Mace
Makeup Assistant: Aoibhin Kileen, Lily Vanita, Saint Maretto and Raphael Arcadios
Nail Tech: Natasha Blake and Sipho Jasmine
Sound Recordist: Alonso Esquinca
Stunt Coordinator: Justin Pearson
Post House: Purple Martin
VFX Director Ben Brewer @ Pretend VFX
Post Producer: Joseph Radonich, Conor Joyce
Editor: Charlie Von Rotberg
Edit support: Laura Lvarikova, Alexander Elegov
Online editor: Oliver Baron
Color Producer: Oliver Whitworth
Grade: Connor Coolbear
VFX: Pretend
VFX Producer: Judy Craig
3D artist: Ben Brewer
VFX Artist: Jeff Desom, Zak Stoltz, Jaime Leonad, Chris Chitty, Sam Edwards, and Ollie Barron
Graphic Design Screens: TOT Studio
Sound design and mix: Trait sound
TALENT:
Talent: FKA twigs
Day to Day Manager: Genneah Turner
Personal Assistant to FKA twigs: Jess Hallesey
Dancers: Hailey Paolillo, Meshach Henry, Cooper Elbourne, Emiliano Jimenez, Artemis Stamouli, Naomi Weijand, Luigi Nardone, Nana-Yaa Appiah, Oscar Jinghu Li, Matteo Cogliandro, Jaxon Willard, Daniele Sibilli, James Vu Anh Pham, Max Cookward, Chelsea Cooper and Ed Munro
Stand-in for FKA twigs: Shivawn Joubert
Directed by Sadistik and Soulandmoon
Shot in Hong Kong
Edited by Tim Slew
Produced by Caravela
[Verse 1]
Under the weather sun above me it’s summer forever
Everyone I know has got a problem the number the better
Tree of Life, broken promises easy to find
Body of Christ LSD I’m seeing the light
Redefined what success is I don’t reach for mine
My feels like a minefield I keep in mind
In the deep end can you depend on
Weekend friends with pretend tongues
Knees bend when the seas get rough, choppy waters
Johnny Walker blue-scapes watch me while I fugue state
Little flippant critics flipping kitchen knives
Crystallites shimmer in the distance like suspicious eyes
So out of body that I can’t recount
Fingers breeze through mirage skin no tantamount
God spits rain enchanted clouds we’re lost in
It’s a long way back to forgotten
[Verse 2]
Am I high or are the stars close?
My whole has life been in dark mode
Charcoal screams seem at home my feet in tar, low
Peel apart bones, ceiling all surrealist art show
Clocks melting down the wall slow
Losing track of time sleepwalking through an odd scene
Self-harm looking like a barcode
Lost soul that was not sold it was costly
God guard me from the common copies
Karma caught me, flight path Kamikaze
Madame Blavatsky mysticism split the mist to prisms
I’m in a prison press the scissors against the limbic systems
Find an escape route and break out
This simulation’s showing seams lately
Opening hazy memories overly blaming
Others for our own repeat failings, roll with me baby
I can show you things that you’ve only dreamed maybe
I can bleed for you, dry the seas for you, grow a tree making
Rosary shavings out the bark when nobody’s saving
Us from dark focus seems staying on our roughest parts
So out of body I can’t recover
Fingers breeze through dead skin of chromatic colors
God spits rain and has us suffer the losses
It’s a long way back to forgotten
Paying homage with rescued sound clips from the archives, DJ Spinn & Taso bring us Good Newz, a tribute to the charismatic founder of Teklife DJ Rashad. A warm voicemail from their late friend opens up the track, which quickly explodes into a storm of hyper bleeps and psychotic hi-hats pumping along an infectious rhythm. Its structure eventually collapses, revealing a minimal battle track with pummeling bass triplets. Sounds are mangled, the bleeps and pushed and pulled every which way, and time feels suspended as drum patterns morph. Rashad was known for his mastery of the MPC, and these two are flexing their way around the pads in a way that would make him proud. Using the remnants of their peer that have survived hard drives over the last 10 years, this is their way of saying thank you for everything, and a testament to their mission of keeping his name alive
Skaters across the globe were crushed when LOVE Park’s redesign scrapped the East Coast’s most iconic ledges. However, the city of Malmö managed to resurrect a few to honor the legacy. Check Sweden’s new plaza as Panebianco, Shanahan, Freddy, Jahmir and more of Philly’s finest break in the stone at its new home