Jamie Cullum’s swingsational dance routine
An unexpected holiday jam, Hang Your Lights is a fun, beautifully busy brass-led ensemble piece that feels like NoLa rolled up and started a jazz night in the middle of an old Hollywood backlot.
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- Production Company Rogue Films
- Director Joe Connor
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Rogue Films
- Director Joe Connor
- Executive Producer Alexa Haywood
- Producer Fred Bonham Carter
- DP Andrew Rawson
Credits
powered by- Production Company Rogue Films
- Director Joe Connor
- Executive Producer Alexa Haywood
- Producer Fred Bonham Carter
- DP Andrew Rawson
Full of swing, step, tap, and brass, Jamie Cullum’s Hang Your Lights is a wonderfully nostalgic dance tune with energetic choreography.
The camera turns and swivels with the dancers, keeping a focus on nobody in particular but making sure that everyone gets a chance to shine. The steps are modern, with frames and turns that hearken back to old musical numbers, with horn interludes and freestyle rocksteps. It’s the little details that really make this film stand out; the moment a little over a minute in where the camera pans up to keep the shot moving and we see the night sky instead of the ceiling is such a simple, but inspired choice.
Directed by Joe Connor of Rogue Studios, Hang Your Lights uses both the intentionality of a Steadicam and fun, in your face drone shoots that circle the performers as they dance and sing. Keeping the shoot narrowed into a fully-controlled warehouse at Abbey Road Studios, the film combines old-school big-band energy with dramatic, dripping, swoon-worthy swagger.