SABA ‘SIRENS’ MUSIC VIDEO

After creating a release video for his ‘Care For Me’ project, Saba invited me to pitch him in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel on a treatment for his next music video. It went well, and I ended up writing and directing the video for “Busy/Sirens” using a small crew, a spotlight and an old house in Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn.

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