We are pleased to share the first assembly of ‘Girl Who Cried Wolf’, the title track and music video from Jasmine Jethwa’s debut album, released on Friday via AWAL. Directed by Ned Botwood, the eerie video draws on fables, tarot and superstition to tell a story of self-sabotage, following Jasmine through a cycle of bad decisions. In a series of folkloric trials, she navigates a forest blindfolded, climbs a hill that keeps getting steeper, struggles against harsh weather, and evades the prowling, titular wolf. The video was shot by regular DoP Bethany Fitter on stark, grainy black-and-white film, channelling Béla Tarr and Derek Jarman’s Dungeness Super-8 films. B-unit photography by Isaac Klaas. The shoot was essentially a homemade labour of love, with Jasmine and a crew of two regular collaborators decamping to rural Devon. Appropriately, it was plagued by spooky goings-on and wild animals. We hope you enjoy it!

Director: Ned Botwood

Director of Photography: Bethany Fitter

B-Unit Photography: Isaac Klaas

Colour: Ruth Wardell @ Time Based Arts

Colour Producer: Dan Kreeger

Film Processing: Cinelab

Cast: Zvone Antic and Julian Chan-Diaz

Thank You: Laura Drault, Somesuch and Sophie Bould-Lynch

Shot on Kodak Vision 3

Following the release of the album, the new video marks the final chapter in the visual world Jasmine and Ned have been building across the album cycle. It is the latest in a cycle of self-contained rural set-pieces exploring love, longing and emotional survival: crawling through a bleak mudscape, launching repeatedly into open sky, and treading water in the dark Atlantic. Pushing that world into darker, stranger, more confrontational territory.