VIDEOS

'Fly, Bird'

Fly, Bird Music Video, info and credits

'Fly, Bird ' is a short film/music video made to the song of the same name, on Sylektis Collection 2. It combines the song with the collection of a video, narrated text, and a sound recording. The original cinematography is by Maia Horniak. It is unused footage from her short film Fear Not, which was shot in Hill End, in the Australian Outback. The sound of nature in the film was recorded there also. Best heard on headphones for the full spatial effect.

The new visuals by Frederic Dumesle were created by projecting the original footage on canvas, and re-filming through custom made anamorphic lenses. No digital effects or colour grading were used. It is the second film in the collaboration between Basil Hogios and Frederic Dumesle. The first film was Tiny Suns, the video for a song on Collection 1 that also featured spoken word and re-imaged visuals. By combining these disparate elements from different projects, new meaning or new feeling is made in the mind of the viewer. For example " The women bound by her own fake and controlled freedom, struggling to sever the bond. Finally, cutting the umbilical cord and walking towards fear itself." or "Vivid and calm. Light and dark."

Directed and Produced by Basil Hogios

Voice Narration by Alexandra Heley

Original footage, text by Maia Horniak

Music by Frederic Dumesle

Editing,music mix by Basil Hogios

Performer Sarah Enright

'Safe House'

Safe House Music Video, info and credits

''Safe House' was created by Maia Horniak as an experimental process where the footage was captured before the song was made, and then re-imagined in the edit to the final track. It was directed and shot intuitively by the principal ideas of the Sylektis project and as an expression of the strange epoch we are living in.

Sylektis is a dispersed international collective of musicians and artists. Process driven and experimental, with a focus on intuition and chance. The song "Safe House" was inspired originally by a chapter in a book and a painting, then as an instrumental piece was passed onto sound designer Michael Theiler who defied expectations with haunting lyrics and vocals.

More information on the song can be found on the Collection One page

Listen to 'Collection One' now: linktr.ee/sylektis

CREDITS (VIDEO)
Director: Maia Horniak maiahorniak.com
Concept: Basil Hogios basilhogios.com
Producer: Oliver McGillick linktr.ee/baohaus
Designer: Nino Zardalishvili photography
Set dresser: Artur Safranek
Performer: Jan Syrovatka

CREDITS (MUSIC)
Vocals, lyrics, sound design: Michael Theiler (Australia)
Composer, Piano, Synth, Samples, Mix : Basil Hogios (Australia)
Tanbur: Ido Romano (Israel) idoromano.com/
Glockenspiel, vibraphone : Camille De Carvalho (France)

Full album and videos: linktr.ee/sylektis

'Tiny Suns'

Tiny Suns Music Video, info and credits

Tiny Suns, a poem set to music. From Debut album 'Collection One'

This film was created by re-shooting the original footage, by Frederic Dumesle, who also composed the analogue synthesizer music in this track.

The image was projected on a wall with a high-power 4k laser projector, and re-filmed through custom anamorphic lenses. The camera was freely moved and focused in on smaller areas of the image, following the performance in real time.

No colour grading or digital filters/effects have been applied. Note the nail and cracks in the wall.

Music:
Analogue synthesizer composition: Frederic Dumesle (Luxembourg)
Voice reading: Toby Harper (UK)
Poem, editing and mix: Basil Hogios (Australia)

Original Footage:
Director: Maia Horniak
Concept: Basil Hogios
Producer: Oliver McGillick
Designer: Nino Zardalishvili
Set dresser: Artur Safranek
Performer: Jan Syrovatka

Re-shot by Frederic Dumesle.

Elegy Visualizer & Lyric Video, info and credits

The video was made by projecting text and images on Basil's studio wall, windows and insect screen, and re-filmed with a Sony snap camera. No digital effects were applied.

’Elegy’ was the first single from ‘Collection 2’, a last minute addition to the album created in a short intense burst of energy as a reaction to images of violence inflicted on innocent souls entangled in senseless conflicts. Humanitarian crises are often the result of political failures, where empathy is does not play a part. ' Who did this to you?' is a cry of disbelief that humans can do this to innocent people without empathy.

The second verse is based on a real event where a lifelong friendship was lost after one friend was deeply offended when the other empathised with the innocent victims of the 'wrong side', a surreal lack of humanity from someone only witnessing the conflict from the sheltered vantage point of screens and social media.

Video: Basil Hogios

Music, lyrics, production : Basil Hogios

Vocals: Syauki Destanika

Stills of Projected Footage

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