Hurray For The Riff Raff have shared a new video for their track ‘Pa’lante‘.
The visuals for the track revolve around a Puerto Rican family dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and stars The Florida Project‘s Mela Murder and Kareem Savinon. Watch the powerful visuals below.
For the director Kristian, this was a very personal video as his family was displaced by Hurricane Maria and his grandfather passed in its aftermath: “We really wanted to showcase talent of color, stories by people of color – it was important to me to make sure this was a diverse production that had Puerto Ricans working on it. The conditions on the island are still very poor. During the production we could all feel how painful it all was, how it’s been so long without enough help. The island is still strong, the people always positive, but you can’t help but feel the desperation and pain of the colonial condition, the sense of abandonment. Pa’lante is a very Puerto Rican mindset – be it a family struggling to stay together, or recovering from the hurricane, the Puerto Rican people are strong and they will always stand and move forward. And there is a beauty to that.”
‘Pa’lante‘ is taken from Hurray For The Riff Raff’s The Navigator which was released in March.
