Active Child Releases Short Film, Launches 'Color Me Project' For Mental Health Awareness

[Cover photo credit to Martin De Thurah]

Active Child has released a new short film for In Another Life track “Color Me” as part of a collaborative art project between the musician and Danish director Martin De Thurah.

The film launched at ColorMeProject.com, a dedicated website that serves as an interactive landing page for visitors to watch the new visual and to "create new content using exclusive imagery from the film itself."

The film includes sculpture, live-action recordings, and visual effects with the distorted sound of “Color Me,” and director Martin De Thurah poses the question: "How do we respond when we have to face our own fears and mortality, and is it possible to find tranquility within the world of our nightmares?" 

Of the video, director Martin De Thurah says:

“I wanted to make something frightening, and I know it is very hard. To create a film in which someone was physically penetrated by their own anxiety. In a gentle way, with a lot of love and the possibility of healing.”  

The website actually allows visitors to screen the film, "find inspiration and generate new creative content". It will also be possible to buy the unique sculptures that Martin De Thurah made specifically for the film, the proceeds from which will be donated to Mental Health Foundation Denmark.

Active Child explains:

"It is hard to be human. Our capacity to feel can be overwhelming. But how we process great emotion and crippling anxiety is what sets us apart. My own fear of death has been with me since I was boy. My fear of a complete end, a full stop, like going to sleep, it haunts me. It lives within me and takes shape in my dreams. It is why my music much of the time is an attempt to reconcile with the existence of a spiritual world.”

Active Child has recently released remixes from the current album, including both the “Cruel World (Jim-E Stack Remix)” and “Painted Staircase (Joe Goddard Remix).” Active Child also continues to celebrate the album’s release with his “Sun Rooms Series,” a collection of stripped-down performances of album tracks filmed outside the musician’s studio.