Set on an 11-hour flight from London to Los Angeles, 'Possible Stranger' explores the liminal space between an anticipatory present of waiting and an imagined future. The music video begins in the world of the present - an abstract ...See moreSet on an 11-hour flight from London to Los Angeles, 'Possible Stranger' explores the liminal space between an anticipatory present of waiting and an imagined future. The music video begins in the world of the present - an abstract representation of an airport gate, a waiting room. A purgatory of 'blank spaces', 'soulless rooms' and strangers who are dead behind the eyes, like statues. When Samfire passes through the archway, she enters the world of her imagination. The world of hallucinatory Hollywood and all it might offer. Of wild encounters with vibrant strangers cloaked in the surreal dreamlike haze of the hellish paradise of Los Angeles. Samfire plays the strangers in the music video - a symbol of how such encounters with strangers come to reveal new facets of our identity - parts we've repressed, or parts that we may not even have known existed. All of these come to the surface when we enter an unfamiliar space and we are forced to confront the 'possible strangers' within ourselves. Written by
Lara Marks
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