DOPEST Video of the Week: "Make It Good" by Gina Volpe
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Gina Volpe (guitarist of legendary NYC punk band Lunachicks) has just released her newest music video for the single "Make It Good”. The track is the second installment of her six-part monthly song series titled "Winter to Spring", is produced by Barb Morrison, and is our new selection for DOPEST Video of the Week.
Being self funded, Volpe had to call on some favors from her friends in film and TV - her former industry from when she worked as a set designer. “My friend William Amenta is a super talented DP and was game to shoot the video on his new RED camera.”
But the concept had to be simple. “I wanted to make a dance video for this song, but I can’t dance for anything” Volpe recalls. Instead she hired professional dancers,
Andrea Ward & Devin Richey, who choreographed the wily moves under the direction of Harry Mavromichalis (Olympia-Doc).
“I didn’t want to see humans dancing, I wanted to see something else.” So Volpe got to work constructing masks out of old bicycle inner tubes, roofing paper, pipe wrap and whatever else she could dig up in her art studio in Dumbo.
Shooting on rooftops in Brooklyn and on an industrial bridge in Masbeth Queens the two dancers face off in their masks and work jumpsuits taunting, courting, chasing, fighting and other things that creatures from the dark depths of Volpe’s surreal imagination do.
The result is like a bizarre dream, or nightmare even, unfolding across NYC’s skyline at night pulsating to the gritty beat of the track.
Watch “Make It Good”, our new selection for DOPEST Video of the Week, stream it on Spotify, and connect with Gina on her website and social media.