Private Project

Second Hand Lovers

A young man lives in his bachelor’s apartment which he shares with the memory of all his past relationships.

  • Oren Lavie
    Director
  • Oren Lavie
    Writer
  • Rachel Vaserman
    Producer
  • Gal Nae
    Producer
  • Maya Brinner
    Choreographer
  • Amichy Bikovsky
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 7, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Israel
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • SXSW 2018
    Austin Texas
    United States
    March 11, 2018
    Official Music Video Selection
  • Vimeo Staff Pick 2018
Distribution Information
  • Sony France
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Oren Lavie

OREN LAVIE

Oren Lavie is a songwriter, director and author of children literature.

DIRECTOR
Oren has written and co-directed the music video for Her Morning Elegance, which was nominated for a Grammy award in the category of best music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY
It has since become a YouTube phenomena with over 30 million views and later screened at Cannes de Lions, LA film Festival, Center Pompidou and many festivals throughout the world.

As a playwright and director Oren’s work has been produced in London, New York and Tel Aviv, under his direction. His play “Lighting The Day” has received the LONDON TIMEOUT’s critic’s choice, and has enjoyed an extended run.
In Israel his work has won the ACCO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL award both for best play and best director.

MUSIC
His first album, The Opposite Side of The Sea, has won the prestigious ASCAP AWARD for most promising lyricist in 2010.
The success of the album has brought Oren to a wide audience in the US, peeking with a performance on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKQZ-hl9_5o)
Oren has contributed a song to the Disney movie, “Narnia Chronicles: Prince Caspian”
His new album, BEDROOM CRIMES, will be released in 2017.

BOOKS
As an author his philosophical children’s book, The Bear Who Wasn’t There, was translated to numerous languages and has been published throughout the world to wonderful reviews. He is about to publish his second children’s book, Children’s Book Of Silence.

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Director Statement

“Second Hand Lovers” is the second video in a series of three videos for my album, “Bedroom Crimes”. On the album each song depicts a different emotional crime which takes place in a bedroom. As a director I set out to find a visual language to compliment the musical language of the album. In Second Hand Lovers I wanted to examine the difficulty we have in opening up to new emotional experiences when past memories haunt us. I decided to bring the situation to the extreme - what if a man surrounded himself only with the prefect memories of his past lovers – how would that compete with the fragility of real emotion?? Visually I wanted to create a symbiosis between the man and his imaginary lovers in every movement. Then I wanted to examine how that might fall apart when conflicted with the possibility of a real experience, and finally I wanted to show it taking over again, finding ways to resurface.