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Directed by UKMVA-nominated filmmaker Jim Longden, the music video for Slow Dream marks a strange and stirring new collaboration with rising avant-pop artist Magdalena Spinka.
Skirting the edges of music video, short film and some sort of slippery fugue state, the piece drifts through feelings of longing, vulnerability and unresolved feelings.
Spinka’s track, written together with Guitarist Jack Willemse, is both intimate and unplaceable. Her voice drifts in and out of focus, with moments of sudden clarity. Slow Dream plays like a memory half-remembered or a thought you can’t quite shake, quietly powerful, impossible to pin down.
The Slow Dream video follows the recent, 2025 release of Spinka’s album Bonnie Bonny ALBUMBUM, an ambitious and experimental project, unbound by any one fixed genre.
Credits
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- Production Company Stink Studios/UK
- Director Jim Longden
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Credits
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- Director Jim Longden
- Colorist Matt Turner
- Producer Molly Martinez Hackney
- Executive Producer Dom Mckiernan
- Producer Flynn Studholme
- DP Sam Hooper
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Stink Studios/UK
- Director Jim Longden
- Colorist Matt Turner
- Producer Molly Martinez Hackney
- Executive Producer Dom Mckiernan
- Producer Flynn Studholme
- DP Sam Hooper
Speaking about the video, Longden says: “I wanted to depict the concept of dreams with a sense of truthful delirium, rather than the way they are often portrayed. Some of the ideas stemmed from personal dreams; other scenes were based on imagined characters I might see on the street. What always intrigues me is the connotations these dreams have in relation to a person’s waking, conscious state. I’m also fascinated by the lack of control we have over our own subconscious, the windmills of your mind, as they say.The video was a tricky quest to execute due to my ideas versus the budget we had. It became a micro-budget masterclass. But through the perseverance and determination of the cast and crew, who resembled a Dirk Diggler formation chemically fused with a Pacino character in a Lumet film, we managed to make it all happen.”
As he develops his debut feature film, Slow Dream follows Longden’s acclaimed short films (To Erase A Cloud, Puddle of Muddles) and his series of music video work for Oracle Sisters, continuing to build on a growing body of deeply personal, obscure and cinematic storytelling.
