Leon Vynehall – Cruel Love By Alex Takács

Director Alex Takács (aka Young Replicant) and UK-based electronic producer Leon Vynehall continue their creative partnership with their music video Cruel Love, a hallucinatory dive into identity, distortion, and strange loops of the psyche, produced by ProdCo. Delivered with Takács customary poetic visuals Cruel Love is a far cry from his and Vynehall’s first video which captured the lives of two waitresses at a New York diner in the 50s, Movements (Chapter III). Working with cinematographer and longtime collaborator, Dustin Lane, Takács crafts a film that feels like a lucid transmission from deep inside the subconscious, a place where memories, identities, and impulses blur behind poetic static. It begins in a dilapidated building that feels part bunker, part brainstem: Leon Vynehall, alone in a cramped apartment, locking the deadbolts and putting tea on the stove. But once a dissolving tab meets his eye and a wall-mounted dream machine is deployed, we leave the room, and reality, behind.