MELODY GARDOT & PHILLIPE POWELL - THIS FOOLISH HEART
DIRECTED BY BEKI MARI

Melody Gardot & Philippe Powell - This Foolish Heart Could Love You”
Starring acclaimed ballet dancers with the Paris Opera ballet “Les Etoiles”, Marie Agnes Gillot & Germain Louvet

As Featured on Nowness & Elle FR.

Flipping the switch on muse and artist at the Musée Rodin

Sensual, romantic and intimate, the first single from Melody Gardot & Philippe Powell's upcoming duo album, ‘This Foolish Heart Could Love You’ arrives alongside a breathtaking video directed by creative polymath Beki Mari.

Speaking about the video Beki says "Some of our most powerful memories are re-lived through music which is why it is so vital to film-making. Music inspires movement both externally and internally and in this piece, surrounded by some of the worlds greatest sculptures, we project ourselves through this combination of movement and song in order to dream through the romance, ending in the slow stillness of silence. For me, the fascination of creating films is this ability to conceive or birth a kind of visual language which is understood uniquely, each time it is played."

The duality of the musicians is cleverly represented in a music video that does not feature the faces of Gardot and Powell, but instead, two new stars: danseuse étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot, along with her male counterpart from L’Opera Garnier, danseur étoile Germain Louvet. Dressed in archive pieces by Japanese Designer Issey Miyake, their movements dash in and out of sunlight from within the walls of the Musée Rodin as they emulate the feeling of that fleeting moment where love just might escape one’s grasp. Choreographed by Marie-Agnès Gillot, the visual piece brings to life the artist August Rodin’s work, as if to ‘flip the switch’ on who is the muse and who is the artist.

March 18, 2022