Desert Rocks Film and Music Event Desert Rocks 2017 Program | Page 23

MUSIC VIDEOS
“PUT IT DOWN”
(4 min., USA)
Put it Down is a music video with a powerful message.
My name is Maya Claridge and I am 16 years old. I wrote this song, PUT IT DOWN, after being bullied for three years
and almost giving up. I started the Bullied to Bold tour (www.BulliedToBold.com) to help other kids overcome being
bullied and to spread an anti-hate message and encourage kids to be kind to one another. I filmed this music video
to show the negative impact of bullying and how we never know what’s going on in someone’s mind or heart or how
badly they might be hurting. The video encourages all teens to put down their fear, put down the negativity others
inflict on them and put down the many ways in which they hurt themselves, and rise above it. (LDVS)
FILMMAKERS: Clara Faith Claridge (Producer, Writer, Lead Actor, Voice Actor, Editor), Koolade Adekoya (Director)
“WE STAY LIKE THIS”
(4 Min., Brazil)
This music video approaches a surrealist universe with two elements loaded with symbolism: sand
and water. In a fragmented way, two narratives move through the solid environment and the liquid. In
which the musician Barro is a hostage of time and space, trapped in that impalpable limbo that is
the creative process of every artist. His character wanders between dream and awakening, being the
narrator of this surreal universe. (LDVSN)
FILMMAKERS: Lorena Calábria (Director, Writer) Mariana Zdravca (Director) Nuvem Filmes (Producer)
La Strada Produções (Producer) Barro (Key Cast) Ariela Alón (Key Cast) Pedro Moreno (Key Cast)
“MIRAGES”
(4 Min., Germany (Filmed in Poland)
Juke Blue finds himself caught between love and temptation in this descent into a world of illu-
sion. Mirages is one of nine singles from Juke Blue’s debut album Polyphony. It was shot, edited
and coloured in 48 hours in Krakow, Poland, in the renowned Pivnica pod Baranami - a bar with
a cabaret tradition stretching back half a century. Juke Blue is a Berlin-based singer/songwriter/
director producing videos for his songs with Europe’s finest underground talent. (LDVSN)
FILMMAKERS: Juke Blue (Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Writer, Story, Lead Actor, Editor,
Digital Effects, Original Music/Composer, Script Supervisor, Assistant Locations Manager) Beata
Sliwiniska (Lead Actor) Karolina Kuklinska (Lead Actor) Michal Wisniowski (Cinematographer/
DP) Mikolaj Mielczarek (Production Manager, Locations Manager) Szymon Jan Sinoff (Camera
Operator, Assistant Camera, Gaffer) Dominika Harat (Makeup Artist)