Wendy Bevan Opens Alone With The Unknown In Red

Red does a lot of work in Wendy Bevan’s “Sirens” video before the song even explains itself. It is beauty, warning, romance, blood, theatre, danger, and the kind of glamour that feels a little too perfect to trust. Bevan pulls from the surreal beauty imagery around Sayoko Yamaguchi, Shiseido, and Serge Lutens, but the video does not play like an archival moodboard.
It takes the charge of those images and turns it psychological: a face becoming a mask, a body becoming part of th