Award-winning Scottish filmmaker David Arthur directs a striking new short film for “Wind,” the latest track from Hamburg-based trio Songraes, featured on their EP ‘Distance’ via Sotones Records. Conceived as a self-contained narrative work, the film uses the song as its emotional anchor, exploring memory, movement, and the fragile boundary between past and present. Set against the windswept backdrop of Troon on Scotland’s west coast, the seaside landscape becomes both literal setting and symbolic terrain.
“Wind” began as a delicate instrumental by Hannes Klock before lyrics from Leo Bruges shaped its themes of isolation, loneliness, and fleeting hope. Anja McCloskey expanded the atmosphere with textured accordion, while strings from Davis West deepened its cinematic scope. Arthur’s film stars acclaimed actor David Hayman as an elderly man navigating recollection and longing, with Elysia Welch appearing as a memory drifting in and out of his world. Arthur, whose credits include editing work on “Outlander” and Sundance winner “God Help the Girl,” brings a restrained, emotionally rhythmic approach that invites interpretation rather than explanation.
Inspired by his own father’s experience with dementia, Arthur infused the project with personal resonance. Filmed shortly before his father’s passing, the finished piece carries added emotional weight. With ‘Distance’ blending analogue warmth and rare instrumentation, Songraes pair the release with support for Spirit Aid, the charity founded by Hayman. The collaboration stands as both a cinematic meditation on memory and a meaningful gesture of awareness and support.