SING FOR THE TREES (2022)
SHORT FILM, COMMISSION
CLIENT, UNTITLED NINE.
SING FOR THE TREES IS A FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FASHION FILM FOR HIGH STREETWEAR CLOTHING COMPANY UNTITLED NINE'S DEBUT COLLECTION OF PAINTED AND RECONSTRUCTED DENIM.
THE FILM SHOWCASES DESIGNERS BREEZE YUN AND TYLER BASA AS THEY BUILD A METAL TREE INSTALLATION TO SHOWCASE THE VIBRANT COLLECTION BETWEEN FOUR WHITE CONCRETE WALLS. ACCOMPANIED BY A KOREAN NARRATION PERFORMED BY YUN, THE SHORT FILM IS A SUBTLE EXPLORATION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE, CREATE, AND EXPRESS IN A NATURAL WORLD WHERE EVERYONE ELSE IS STRUGGLING TO GET THEIR OWN IDEAS ACROSS ALL AT ONCE.
"WHEN SOMEONE SHOUTS OUT LOUD TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES, IT OFTEN BECOMES JUST A NOISE."
THE FILM WAS WRITTEN, DIRECTED, PHOTOGRAPHED, AND EDITED BY 22-YEAR-OLD AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER RYAN HENRY KNIGHT. THIS IS THE FILMMAKER'S SIXTH DIRECTED FASHION FILM AFTER DIRECTING BAFTA FESTIVAL SELECTED, SILENCE IS BLACK AND WHITE, AT AGE 19.
Writer, Director: Ryan Henry Knight
Production Company: HÖMA
Brand: UNTITLED NINE
Executive Producers: Breeze Yun and Tyler Basa
Assistant Camera, Lead Photographer: Xavier Thompson
Composer: Ahab Mullick
Narrator: Breeze Yun
Director of Photography, Editor: Ryan Henry Knight
Poem: Ryan Henry Knight and Breeze Yun