The Birth of Ganymede

The production of the new music video GANYMEDE has been epic. About 2 years ago I had visited Skylands and wrote this storyboard. It was these forlorn and windswept guys (the band) walking in the grounds of this unfathomable estate. They walk up to the window and see a party, with they themselves in it! A beggars banquet in an Elizabethan house.

Leave it to director Alex Engel to take it further: Anne Boleyn as Ganymede tries to outrun her fate. Looking in a window she sees the band playing a beggars banquet. And she sees herself! Ganymede becomes immortal but loses her humanity.

The video chronicles this suspension of reality actually quite well. The first day begins at 6:20 in the morning and I am standing on the street corner somewhere north of Chelsea...

Randomly, people standing on the street corner are picked up by the van. I have never seen them before. And the next thing I know we are swept off to Skylands.



I met Caitlyn and the crew. Filming took the entire day.