ABIGAIL SEVERANCE

HARD TIMES
music video | 2010 | HD
When Meatyard released their rich and lovely EP Sweet Old Green World, they asked me to select one of the songs and make a video for it. I chose Hard Times, one of my favorite traditional tunes, but I wanted to find a way to distance it from Stephen Foster’s world. Hanging out with Isla, daughter of Meatyard frontman Josh Welsh, an idea about a modern-day feminist fairytale began to emerge, in which Little Red Riding Hood might stalk the Wolf in order to befriend him.
COLLABORATORS
musicians > Meatyard: Josh Welsh, Molly Hansen, Rupert Sandes
girl > Isla Welsh
manimal > Rupert Sandes
writer/director > Abigail Severance
cinematography > Christian Bruno
camera > Christian Bruno + Ted Chung
set design > Laurel Frank
crew > Arpita Kumar, Kate Marks, Evan Pritts
editor > Omar Gonzalez
visual fx > Eric Escobar
recording studio > Jungle Room
thanks > Steak House, Bonnie Gavel
willow house > Catawampus by Patrick Dougherty, Los Angeles Arboretum