THE SWAMP

Best Music Video, Brighton Rocks International Film Festival 2026

Best Music Video & Best Hybrid Film, AI International Film Festival 2026

Built from a handful of photographs taken in the basement of The Bee's Mouth pub, Hove, on a single afternoon. Photographs that became the band's album cover, and the last record of them before they were gone. The Electric Song Company were a Brighton band who played a few gigs and disbanded for reasons unknown. This film is their resurrection — constructed from those archive photographs, a personal portrait, and AI used to close a ten-year gap. The central figure is Jack Strutt (Steve Hagler), an American musician who arrived in the UK on an 1980s album deal. One photograph from his twenties. Forty years of distance. AI used to bridge them. The result is a meditation on lost love and regret — the moments that slipped away and the weight they leave behind. The Swamp — The Electric Song Company. Written by Bruce Maxwell-Smith © Visual Sonic Records. https://ditto.fm/unworn-wedding-dress

The stack: Magnific, Nano Banana, Kling 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HeyGen, Affinity, DaVinci Resolve.

THE SWAMP

Best Music Video, Brighton Rocks International Film Festival 2026

Best Music Video & Best Hybrid Film, AI International Film Festival 2026

Built from a handful of photographs taken in the basement of The Bee's Mouth pub, Hove, on a single afternoon. Photographs that became the band's album cover, and the last record of them before they were gone. The Electric Song Company were a Brighton band who played a few gigs and disbanded for reasons unknown. This film is their resurrection — constructed from those archive photographs, a personal portrait, and AI used to close a ten-year gap. The central figure is Jack Strutt (Steve Hagler), an American musician who arrived in the UK on an 1980s album deal. One photograph from his twenties. Forty years of distance. AI used to bridge them. The result is a meditation on lost love and regret — the moments that slipped away and the weight they leave behind. The Swamp — The Electric Song Company. Written by Bruce Maxwell-Smith © Visual Sonic Records. https://ditto.fm/unworn-wedding-dress

The stack: Magnific, Nano Banana, Kling 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HeyGen, Affinity, DaVinci Resolve.

THE SWAMP

Best Music Video, Brighton Rocks International Film Festival 2026

Best Music Video & Best Hybrid Film, AI International Film Festival 2026

Built from a handful of photographs taken in the basement of The Bee's Mouth pub, Hove, on a single afternoon. Photographs that became the band's album cover, and the last record of them before they were gone. The Electric Song Company were a Brighton band who played a few gigs and disbanded for reasons unknown. This film is their resurrection — constructed from those archive photographs, a personal portrait, and AI used to close a ten-year gap. The central figure is Jack Strutt (Steve Hagler), an American musician who arrived in the UK on an 1980s album deal. One photograph from his twenties. Forty years of distance. AI used to bridge them. The result is a meditation on lost love and regret — the moments that slipped away and the weight they leave behind. The Swamp — The Electric Song Company. Written by Bruce Maxwell-Smith © Visual Sonic Records. https://ditto.fm/unworn-wedding-dress

The stack: Magnific, Nano Banana, Kling 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HeyGen, Affinity, DaVinci Resolve.

THE SWAMP

Best Music Video, Brighton Rocks International Film Festival 2026

Best Music Video & Best Hybrid Film, AI International Film Festival 2026

Built from a handful of photographs taken in the basement of The Bee's Mouth pub, Hove, on a single afternoon. Photographs that became the band's album cover, and the last record of them before they were gone. The Electric Song Company were a Brighton band who played a few gigs and disbanded for reasons unknown. This film is their resurrection — constructed from those archive photographs, a personal portrait, and AI used to close a ten-year gap. The central figure is Jack Strutt (Steve Hagler), an American musician who arrived in the UK on an 1980s album deal. One photograph from his twenties. Forty years of distance. AI used to bridge them. The result is a meditation on lost love and regret — the moments that slipped away and the weight they leave behind. The Swamp — The Electric Song Company. Written by Bruce Maxwell-Smith © Visual Sonic Records. https://ditto.fm/unworn-wedding-dress

The stack: Magnific, Nano Banana, Kling 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HeyGen, Affinity, DaVinci Resolve.