Adam Egypt Mortimer

The video for NATALIA’S LESZ’s second single POWER OF ATTRACTION is finished. This was a massive production, a rad 3 day shoot at the infamous abandoned hospital in Boyle Heights. This video takes place in a run down fascist future wet dream, involving black leather clad ballet school girls, oiled musclemen in gasmasks, death-sucking priests, demonic surgery, and an unusually oppressive office. It was amazing to me to see the response that Natalia’s peeps in Poland had to potentially controversial material — so far it has seemed that this once fascist society is thrilled to see a sexualized / deconstructed / brutal / comic-book styled nightmare based on that reality.
LUKAS ETTLIN was DP on this one, and he just knocked it out of the park. So did CHAD MICHAEL WARD who got to really shine as production designer, bringing his twisted post-industrial goth vision; and I was especially honored to have KEN ROHT choreograph the video — not just the dancing sequence but the whole video shows his stylized movement. This was my first video with a full on dance sequence and working with an experimental visionary like Ken was key to making it work. Of course, Natalia performed flawlessly and completely inhabited the role.

“Natalia Lesz – Power of Attraction”

Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer

Director of Photography: Lukas Ettlin
Production Designer: Chad Michael Ward
Art Director: Garret Zunt
Choreographer: Ken Roht

Featuring Diana Newton

Producted by Rob Schroeder, Georg Kallert, and Peter Nieves for Lodger Films
CLIENT: EMI Poland

Link to Quicktime