	{"id":109414,"date":"2025-01-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=109414"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:14:53","slug":"music-video-a-statement-on-gendered-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/living\/music-video-a-statement-on-gendered-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Music video a statement on gendered violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO young female creatives have banded together to comment on the state of violence against women in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Songwriter, Evie Charleson, who performs under the name V\u00e9ndetta, spent late last year collaborating with photographer and filmmaker Jett Leduc to create a music video for her song Femicide.<\/p>\n<p>Initially released in August, the song comments on the number of women murdered throughout the country in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Charleson said the inspiration for the work came from a local event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went to a local march [in April] organised by Sissy Austin and I was very touched and heartbroken, especially by seeing the families of the victims,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt like the government weren&#8217;t really speaking out or doing enough, and I wanted to write a song that hopefully [the families] could hear and be reminded that people do care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charleson credits the idea of creating the video as &#8220;a fluke&#8221; after posting on social media looking for people to be part of an &#8220;angry, feminist music video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She received an influx of female interest, including from Leduc, who directed and filmed the project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/1000009955_57474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female voices: The majority of the music video for V\u00e9ndetta\u2019s Femicide was shot over a single day with the cast and crew comprised of just over a dozen women. Photos: SUPPLIED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Filming took place primarily near the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, with additional shooting done during editing, which was handled between the two key creatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Jett&#8217;s] very professional and is very passionate about the subject too, so she took it very seriously,&#8221; Charleson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She performed my ideas very seriously while putting her own ideas on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the video&#8217;s great because there&#8217;s so many girls of different ages in it who all cared about the topic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was very important for some scenes where it reflects what women are called, and how they&#8217;re treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The all-female cast and crew ranged from 15 to 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Charleson said though the Femicide video has been well-received following its release in mid-December, she&#8217;s particularly interested at making sure its message is heard by those impacted by the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;d really like is for the families of the victims to see it and I hope they feel some sense of people caring and trying to make a difference,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Charleson and Leduc will collaborate again for the release of the former&#8217;s third album later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO young female creatives have banded together to comment on the state of violence against women in Australia. 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