DOV - "Hold You Down"

In this incredibly affecting and cathartic video for DOV’s “Hold You Down” featuring the vocal work of TESHA, the Israeli immigrant and New Yorker paints a deeply emotional picture of love and loss - echoing massive chasms between what we wanted to say and didn’t get the chance to. A meditation on loss inspired from the deaths of both DOV and TESHA’s - both collaboration found a sense of creative synergy in working through this loss. The result is something truly beautiful. Huge, crashing beats come in sparse retorts while while soft drones of synth come down from the rafters catching TESHA’s voice on an upswell. The video was directed Jean Charles Charavin and describes, “…. a disjointed story between a fiction film and a dance to represent the emotions that can follow after a period of mourning. Moments that are both hazy, surreal, and extremely intense. For me, dance is a poetic way to tell a lot of things. The film does not seek to convey a specific message or build a very linear narration. Everyone can find their own interpretation and understand what they wish. It was important for me that the film remained poetic and open to interpretation.”