Since first meeting at a public high school in Charlotte, NC musical artist Moon Bride (Carly Kotula) and filmmaker, Daniel Rosenberg promised that one day they’d make a music video together. Lucky for the world, that day has finally arrived.

Near the end of 2023, the two gathered a small dream team of other hometown friends and artists Zoë Lotus (Art Director), Pat Kotula (Assistant Director), and Victoria Singleton (Costume Designer, Hair/Makeup Artist) to reunite in the town where it all began.

The result is the debut music video by production company, Boy Howdy.

The music video is a medley featuring not one, but two songs off of Moon Bride’s latest album,

Insomnie.

Staying true to the album’s theme of restlessness and awakening,

“Nobody Knows / Keep Calm and Carry On” visualizes a woman breaking free from the mundane to find a world in technicolor, but no more answers than questions. The eccentric, retro-pop soundtrack quickly turns from a Judy Garland-style lullaby to an upbeat, rockabilly-grunge ballad with nods to Weezer and The Pixies.

In a whopping 3 1/2 minutes the team managed to fit 9 characters (all played by Kotula herself), a dozen different sets, and 9 outfits -

6 of which were handmade by Victoria Singleton. Singleton looked to the name Moon Bride for her otherworldly designs, as well as tastemakers of the 60’s futurism movement, like Pierre Cardin and André Courreges, whose shapes and color pallets inspired the playful, cosmic, and fashion forward pieces that became the final looks for the music video. Her iconic white dress blends bridal elegance with the spirit of the space-age.

Rosenberg, a compositing artist working in film and television, and Lotus, a motion graphics artist, spent months carefully curating the shoot and just as many editing in post. Invested in recreating the quality of traditional film processes, Rosenberg drew inspiration from orthochromatic film (“Nobody Knows”) and 35mm technicolor (“Keep Calm and Carry On”). The crew shot for 3 full days at NODA Art House in Charlotte.

The project was edited by Rosenberg in Da Vinci resolve, with motion VFX built in Nuke and Blender. It was shot on a range of lenses from modern Canon to vintage glass and a Soviet manufactured lens for an authentic vintage aesthetic. The music video was produced without a trace of AI technology.

The first collaboration between Moon Bride and Boy Howdy,

“Nobody Knows / Keep Calm and Carry On” is as playful as the songs it envisions. Taking inspiration from Old Hollywood classics and Harper’s Bazaar’s Man Ray with a sci-fi punk-rock spin, it is an artful, extravagant, and totally original trip through time and space. And worth your 3 1/2 minutes.