Halsey

Creative Director for Halsey’s “The Great Impersonator” short film, featuring four iconic live performances staged in a time warp spanning four decades told through a nearly pathological attention to period detail

The concept for Halsey’s album was an exploration of what she might have looked and sounded like if she were born in a different era. How do time and place inform an artist’s choices?

Honing in on the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s we meticulously designed bespoke environments to stage live, full band performances of the four lead singles from her album. Each performance space was connected by a physical hallway serving as a portal for Halsey to travel through time and space, hopping from one decade to the next.

Starting on stage of a 1970s era TV performance, channelling Stevie Nicks replete with overlays, star filters, leather and lace Halsey exits the stage door into an industrial corridor and through a doorway into a 1980s era New Jersey diner, then through a darkened suburban hallway into a grunge era 1990s garage (shot handheld in 360) finally landing on stage of an early 2000s stadium concert

Stretching the limits of reality - and our budget - we captured all four performances in a single day, each in a single take.