Making of The Smile's 'Skrting On The Surface' music video with Director Mark Jenkin and Thom Yorke

We’re proud to present a behind-the-scenes documentary look at The Smile’s (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner) music video for ‘Skrting On The Surface’ which is taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’.
The video is directed by Mark Jenkin, the Cornish director, editor, and cinematographer who won a BAFTA in 2019 for his debut feature-film ‘Bait’. The video was shot by Jenkin in 16mm black and white film in an abandoned Cornish mine.
200 feet under the earth in the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in West Cornwall (during storm Eunice), Jenkin shot Yorke playing a miner with no natural light. Jenkin then hand-developed the film using Yorke’s head-torch and water from the mine itself.
To accompany this (literally) groundbreaking video, Jenkin also used 16mm footage, personal narration and a suite of BTS stills to create an eye-opening walkthrough of this experimental process.
Watch ‘Skrting On The Surface’ here: • The Smile - Skrting On...
The Smile will release their debut album ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’ on 13 May 2022 via XL Recordings
Direction and Footage: Mark Jenkin
Editor: Fin Melluish
BTS Footage/ Stills: Steve Tanner
Production Company: Bullion Productions
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[@bernardoalvarezdelcastillo]

Before listening to this, I thought Thom was portraying a man burying himself.

[@DRRNNDGL]

Thats what I got out the video too

[@oldchicken2]

This is so cool. It’s crazy how much work went into this. Especially cool that he used mine water in the development process

[@jimmymeridian5174]

This was great, I actually had no idea it was shot in a real mine.
when I first watched the video, I wondered how long it took to build the fake mine set lol

[@charlesgrodriguez]

Fabulous, atmospheric.

[@ericdavidwallace]

Damn. That Director is good. Amazing work.

[@brendo69]

thom cosplaying a working class citizen

[@masterninja9716]

LARPING l😮

[@thisvexesme]

bro you'd have to pay me five mil to make me go down any mine let alone without light during a storm. Thats ten mil right there bro. Y'all crazy
(i mean to be fair it did end up looking dope asl)

[@ashleysgaze]

Truly magick!