songs and videos
‘Bodhisattva’ is the first single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album, ‘Tells You to Fight’released in April 2008. The video was shot and directed by Chicago-based Israel Alpizar.
Renee-Louise on Bodhisattva:
“One of my friends was really struggling, deep in this mess - a very melodramatic
character who had a reputation for feeling suicidal whenever he broke up with a girl..
I was driving my car to this party house where I knew my friend was… and feeling very strong feelings of sympathy for him, and of wanting to be a guiding light for him… and this song came to my head, a very big song, full of instruments, like “leader of the pack” but different.”
The music video for Renee-Louise Carafice’s single House on Fire was shot on a dark country road outside of Auckland during Carafice’s recent visit to New Zealand.
“I had to run behind a truck filled with cameras and lights and generators,” says Renee-Louise, “In a skimpy dress in the middle of winter. People were handing me lit cigarettes and bottles of liquor from the back of the truck. Although the video has a very lonely feel to it, behind the camera it was crazy with activity.”
Directed and filmed by Auckland director Cristobal Araus Lobos and produced by William Wallace, the concept of this video originated in a dream that Carafice had in which she was running with a gun. The song House on Fire was written for Texan alt-country singer Micah P Hinson.
To Run
music video
Created by sixteen-year-old Colin Lepper from Canada, this music video was made up of approximately 3100 still shots and 2 months of work.
Written when Carafice was nineteen years old and having just read Wuthering Heights for the first time, this song was an attempt to express the discomfort she felt becoming a young woman and feeling trapped into a certain mould.
Although it fits so powerfully alongside Carafices songs of institutionalization, this is a song written long before those experiences, and it speaks of a more universal battle being played out: the battle between what you pretend to be and what you inherently are.
The new music video for Renee-Louise Carafice's song "Lorazopam" by Chicago-based director Israel Alpizar.
Says Carafice -"This song was originally intended to be so melodramatic that it was funny. 'Sometimes everything in you tells you to break out into the night'... come on really! But as the song got heard by more and more people, people's response to it was quite different, they found it very sad, some people even cried listening to it. This interpretation is okay too. I hold a firm belief that life is a very funny and very sad thing."
