Inspired by an 11-hour flight from London to Los Angeles, POSSIBLE STRANGER is the official music video for British alt-pop artist, Samfire. It explores the liminal space between an anticipatory present of waiting and visions of an imagined future. The music video begins in the present world of reality - an abstract representation of an airport gate, a waiting room. A purgatory of 'blank spaces', 'soulless rooms' and strangers who are dead behind the eyes, like statues. When Samfire passes through the archway, she enters the world of her imagination. The world of hallucinatory Hollywood and all it may have to offer. Of wild encounters with vibrant strangers cloaked in the surreal dreamlike haze of the hellish paradise of Los Angeles.

 

Samfire plays the strangers in the music video - a symbol of how such encounters with strangers can come to reveal new facets of our identity - parts we’ve repressed, or parts that we may not even have known existed. All of these come to the surface when we enter an unfamiliar space and we are forced to confront the ‘possible strangers’ within ourselves.

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The music video premiered in Wonderland magazine and was featured in Ninu Nina's Interviews with Inspiring Artists. It was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Los Angeles International Indie Short Fest, as well as being selected as a finalist for Best First Time Female Director. It also won the Music Video Special Award and Best Production Design in the Eastern Europe Film Festival and was awarded Best Production Design and an Honorable Mention for Costume Design in the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival.

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'Possible Stranger fuses Marks’ independent film skills to Samfire’s bewitching pop, creating an expansive and complex sonic experience that brings to the screens the mystical awe inspired by a new place and unknown face.' - Wonderland Magazine