Arca is going full on opera in his visuals for ‘Reverie’ as we see a bleeding bullfighter in a frayed and tattered upper bodice,  trying keep his balance on artifical hoofs and fishnet stockings. Like the previous video for ‘Anoche‘, it’s an almost uncomfortably intimate and tender exploration of desire, death, self-doubt and the beauty of owning your struggle. There’s always flesh, young and bare and desirable, but there are also always wounds somewhere, sometimes healing, sometimes still fresh, sometimes fatal.

Directed by Jesse Kanda, make up by Belgium’s own Inge Grognard.

Conceived by Jesse Kanda and Alejandro Ghersi

Executive Producer: Juliette Larthe
Producer: Hannah May
Production Assistant: Tom Manaton
1st Assistant Director: Bryony James
Director of Photography: Steve Annis
1st Camera Assistant: Eira Wyn Jones
2nd Camera Assistant: Isabel Boddy
Steadicam: Tom English
Prosthetics Artist: John Nolan Studio
Stylist: Akeem Smith
Make Up Artist: Inge Grognard
Make Up Artist Assistant: Hadeel Tal
Hair Artist: Virginie Pinto Moreira
Production Designer: Arthur De Borman
Grip: Bertie Wood
DIT: Ben Worthington
Desk Op: Christian Smith
Electrician: Yan Murawski
Electrician: Hamza Twomey
Electrician: Camil Liberto
Rigger: Ian Thomson
Set Builder: James Robotham
Production Design Assistant: Hamish Whitecross
Runner: Joel Ward
Runner: Jack Fontaine
Runner + First Aid: Rosie Owen
Colour Grading: Simon Bourne at Framestore