Florence + The Machine have unveiled the final visual for their video series The Odyssey that pieces together music videos from How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful into 50-minute short film. The final piece is for "Third Eye," which wraps up the emotional story of heartbreak with some nifty choreography.
"This is the finale of a very personal project that came from a conversation me and Vince had in the Chateau Marmont about a year and a half ago while I was writing How Big How Blue How Beautiful," says Florence Welsh in a statement. "I was talking to him about the record and the car crash of a relationship break up I was going through. The highs and the lows of love and performance, how out of control I felt, the purgatory of heartbreak, and how I was trying to change and trying to be free. And we decided we would re-tell this story in full."
Video director Vincent Haycock spoke about the whole journey that the videos capture and compared it to the one that Homer or Dante traveled.
"The Odyssey, like the epic poem by Homer, is a journey. It's Florence's personal journey to find herself again after the emotional storm of a heartbreak. Like the layers of Dante's purgatory, each song or chapter represents a battle that Florence traversed and physical landscape that embodied each song or story," noted Haycock in a statement. "Its a metaphorical journey about escaping your demons, confronting yourself and returning to the original Florence, the dancer, the performer, the lover."
Fans can watch the last bit below or the whole Odyssey from start to finish in a digital movie theater setting on the Florence + The Machine website.
