DESCRIPTION:
From the album "Satellites", out now! http://www.egadz.net

Starring: Branden Nava
Directed by: Patrick Guera
Director of Photography: Milan Spasić
Artistic Director / Spaceship Set Design: Egadz
Visual Effects: Petar Lalić of Lucid Dreams
Wardrobe: Brigid Moore

"This is the town my brothers, sister and I grew up in. We lived in the apartments right next to the dirt lot where we set up the spaceship. Young Branden, the lone actor of this video starts off by running on top of the (now covered) pool that I almost drowned in when I was 6. Next to the sidewalk out front is where someone set a drug dealers car on fire in the middle of the night. The neighborhood is a mix of the ambitious who believe in the grace of god and who keep their small plot of land perfectly and oddly landscaped. Those are right next to other houses that would probably collapse if the town saw any kind of weather, ever. The dirt there is as much in the air as it is on concrete that's been there since I was Brandens age.


With as little this town has to offer, Branden would need to use everything he could to make anything at all. His project is put together using things he finds as he walks around his town filled with partially sustained businesses and factories. Each item is something someone there couldn't find a use for. These are the pieces forgotten by the neighbors, sifted through and left alone because they have no value. The ones you can't sell for meth, weed or alcohol. These are the things Branden builds bigger things with.


To Branden the spaceship is the escape vehicle. To the rest of us the spaceship signifies one piece of many pieces that are needed to find the truth about who we are and where we came from. Plainly, it's a symbol of ambition where little can be found in those who wait for something or someone to save them. While shooting the spaceship, there were only a few people on the streets during the entire day. This would have been true in Branden's world as well. If young Branden could have been the savior of his town and built a larger spaceship, he would have but there just weren't enough resources. But then again, who would want to go?


Branden saved himself, but crash lands in the desert sand dunes. The first thing we would normally want to see are greener pastures. Unfortunately, that wasn't written in, because it doesn't matter. The emphasis of the story then turns into why he built the spaceship in the first place. Why as humans do we feel the need to build anything, when we can just sit and wait for someone else to open our minds to what's not impossible."