The Rose is a deeply personal, haunting, animated music video about childhood trauma and living with the after effects.
The film is a collaboration between Dark-Folk singer songwriter Michaela Betts, Director Hilary Campilan and contemporary dancer Chrissy Brooke. It was filmed on an ultra low budget with live action shot on an IPhone 13Pro, edited and animated by Hilary in Australia.
The Rose has won:
Best in Creative AI - Australian XR Festival Awards 2023
Best Horror Music Video - Tabloid Witch Awards
Best Film (Experimental) - Canberra Short Film Festival
Best Animation - Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival 2023
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The Rose is a collaboration between singer songwriter Michaela Betts, Australian director Hilary Campilan and UK dancer and actress Chrissy Brooke.
Michaela’s haunting cinematic folk music has emerged from years of songwriting, theatre work, and perfecting her sound as a session singer and pianist. Her music has been described as ‘Unique and melancholic, her songs are dark folk tales in themselves, cinematic in scope but with the intimacy of a campfire. We are seduced but there is always a danger of being burned.’
Born in Antwerp and raised in a rambling house in Yorkshire, Michaela was the daughter of travelling folk musicians. Her father David F Betts was a singer/songwriter and TV composer while her Swedish mother’s stepdad was the writer Bengt Nerman, and his father the journalist Ture Nerman, a famous Swedish socialist who met Lenin in 1917.
The isolation and freedom of living in the middle of nowhere shaped Michaela and her writing growing up. The harshness and beauty of nature, and resisting but needing change, are recurring themes. In 2020 she took up Transcendental Meditation which had a huge impact on her state of mind and outlook.
Hilary Campilan is an award-winning writer, director and editor working in 2D / 3D motion and AI graphics, short form media, commercials, TV promos and branded content. She is a guest speaker on generative AI in Creative Practice, and was previously Head of Design at MTV networks Australia and Senior Creative at ABC Australia.
Chrissy Brooke is a UK actress and dancer.
Her theatre credits include: Dr Semmelweis (Harold Pinter); Wait For Me (Online); Dirty Dancing (Dominion); Carousel (Regents Park); Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre); An American in Paris (Dominion); Wicked (original UK Tour) and Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s).
Her film credits include: Tethered (short); Apartment 7A, Snow White, Disenchanted, Wonka, Cruella, Eurovision, Cats, Ready Player One
Her TV credits include: Bridgerton, Royal Festival of Remembrance (Royal Albert Hall); The Brit Awards (Olly Murs); Graham Norton (Robbie Williams); The Royal Variety Performance (Gary Barlow) and Dance Dance Dance (ITV).
Her music video credits include: Party like a Russian (Robbie Williams); Heavy Entertainment Show (Robbie Williams); These are the Special Times (Jonathan Antoine) and Medicine (Lisa Canny).
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