Celeste makes directorial debut with dark new ‘This Is Who I Am’ short film

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Celeste has made her directorial debut for a short film accompanying her new single ‘This Is Who I Am’.The song has been used as the title theme for the recent political thriller The Day Of The Jackal starring Eddie Redmayne.Now, Celeste has unveiled the accompanying video, which was filmed in Winchester with a cast of collaboratives she chose herself, including the artist Edward Rollitt, choreographer Holly Blakey and designer Sonia Trefilova.Per a press release, the film intended on depicting “the oppression women have faced throughout history, and their collective strength and resilience to overcome”, while also introducing two characters who will play a major part in her 2025 album.“The initial thinking behind the idea is that there is a sense that we, as a people, are enduring a kind of suffering, perhaps due to a lack of connectivity among people in society,” Celeste said. “It has been my thinking for a long time now that we feel quite often that women are, or should be, the bearers of our comfort.

But in the way our roles and lives have evolved, we are no longer the universal caregivers that keep a society functioning, feeling loved, nurtured, and in the safety of the metaphorical womb.