It's this disease that's taking over everybody and it's like, I think the future belongs to people who are just going to pay attention to the way the world actually manifests, what actually is interesting, what life is actually like and tell those stories.

And that's going to win the day.

You're right. You're so right. That's what's going to win.

This is Jonathan Peugeot.

Welcome to the symbolic world.

So hello, everybody. I am here with Neil DeGrade.

People who watch my channel have seen him around. He is the head of the band Dirkpole Robbins, but he is much more than that. We're here to talk about a new movie that he's putting together called The Queen of the Night. Very excited about it. It's like a modern fairy tale. And so I'm really looking forward to talking about that with him.

Thank you for having me on. Always a pleasure. As a band, we've always done concept records, but now we've decided to add a visual component, a stronger visual component to what we're doing,

and we're making a silent film. It felt like the perfect way to, oh, create a story, a visual

story that we could put our music to. So it felt like a no-brainer.

We had the right story. And here we are. It's called Queen of the Night.

Yeah. So tell us a little bit about the mood of it because there's something, it has an old-timey

sense to it. It's a silent film. It's using, it's using kind of these classic effects even

that look kind of old-timey. But there's something about it. There's something about it that's

very rich in terms of visuals that you were able to create very simply, you know, that this movie's

not costing you a fortune either. All of this is an interesting idea or solution

for kind of modern movie making or making stories today. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. Give me a lot to comment

on right there. Let's talk about silent films quick, quickly. You know, there's early era in films.

And silent films generally at first were just like they're trying to bring a play to life

and things were shot like they were on a stage cameras wouldn't move actors were coming in and

out of the frame off stage on stage and the props were generally like two-dimensional so i wanted

to keep an aspect of that when i did it like uh but i, but I also, there's something very tiring about silent films.

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