Swedish songwriter Alice Boman recently announced a new album titled The Space Between with a video for its lead single that perfectly matched that track’s sense of intimacy, filling in the blanks left by Boman’s penchant for minimalist ballads. Following that track, her latest single “Maybe” leans into the visceral nostalgia of its woozy instrumental with another on-point visual, this time courtesy of filmmaker Castor who set the tune to images discovered in an abandoned Swedish cabin nearly a decade ago.
“The place was turned upside down, and in the debris I found some old 8mm film tapes marked with locations from all over the world,” they share. “Once home, I borrowed a projector and recorded the 27 minutes worth of film on the roll marked ‘Canada.’ On it there’s some footage in front of a cinema with titles that premiered back in 1973 making the footage almost 50 years old by now. In a short sequence there’s a glimpse of a gravestone with a Swedish name, Edwin, who passed in 1958. I decided to investigate that further and found the stone to be located in the small town of Spalding, Canada.”
Castor continues, “I finally managed to reach one of the man’s grandsons and I sent the footage for him and his siblings to watch. And there they were, as kids, running around their family home, which is still in their possession. The photographer is remembered as Irene, a long-distance relative from Storuman in Sweden, who passed away in the early ’90s. 30 years after her passing, Irene touched the hearts of the ones she captured on her camera that one time back in the early ’70s, and I bet she will touch a few more in Alice’s lovely ‘Maybe.’ Irene is shown in the last frames of this video. Rest in peace.”
Watch the video below. You can also pre-order The Space Between ahead of its October 21 release date here.
