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CIFIKA - Good Luck From Her (Lusine Remix, Live)

Music video collaboration from Seoul based electronic artist CIFIKA and Seattle's Lusine.

Streaks of experimental electronics and live drums blend with vocals sung in korean and english.

Cifika's lyrics in the song are about borrowing strength from a future self she sees as realized and strong, because her present self is down - "I want to borrow good luck from her, I just want it to burst on my heart / I have so far to go but I keep breaking down, would you give me your good luck just once / would you please carry me just once."

Two cities merge - Lusine in Seattle, and CIFIKA in Seoul.

The video carries the layering forward through a series of double exposures. Cities are interfaced with the natural world. Snakes ingest skylines. A roving eye hovers, roams, and surveys.

Lusine (Jeff McIlwain) and CIFIKA (Yousun Cho) originally worked together for a track on Lusine’s 2019 'Retrace EP' released on Ghostly International.

The pairing led to Lusine remixing the CIFIKA song “Good Luck From Her” which never got released.

This video is for a live version of the remix featuring a drummer.

McIlwain says, “I really loved CIFIKA's original track for “Good Luck From Her,” and her beautiful vocal work. I thought I could come at it from a different angle, breaking up the verse and chorus into totally different, more abstract sections. The verse just seemed to want to build and build in my head, and I like the weird way it turned out. I played it out live a few times, usually with Trent Moorman on drums. This is a recording of the live version."

  • Trent Moorman
    Director
  • CIFIKA Yousun Cho
    Writer
  • Lusine Jeff McIlwain
    Writer
  • Nick Bartoletti
    Effects
  • John Bosch
    Mastering
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Genres:
    Electronic, experimental, techno
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 17, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Hong Kong, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, United States
  • Language:
    English, Korean
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Trent Moorman

Trent Moorman is a writer and a drummer. His work has appeared in VICE, Rolling Stone, Salon, MTV, the Stranger, Tape Op, and elsewhere.

He currently provides the theme music for CNN's 'Anderson Cooper Full Circle' show.

Trent has interviewed Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, Zach Galafianakis, and an Australian man who jumped on a dead whale being eaten by sharks.

Other journalistic activities include being shot by a bulletproof tailor in Bogotá, Colombia for VICE, and accompanying Ken the Ghost Hunter to Jimi Hendrix's grave.

www.trentmoorman.com

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Director Statement

“I liked the original version and the remix of "Good Luck From Her" so much I listened to them all the time, and over the past year I started compiling video footage to go with the sounds. Then I visited snakes at a reptile sanctuary outside Seattle, and began double exposing video of the snakes with the city scenes.

Water in dreams can be emotion, so there's lots of water. And the world's upside down. I added drums, percussion, and keys at the Recovery Room Studio in Seattle.”