This is the debut music video for Louisville band Nolia Noon with its song, Roses. The video features singer/guitarist Jared Foos as a musician who is left heartbroken when his longtime girlfriend leaves him for someone who can offer her wealth and stability. She soon has regrets but is it too late?
Digital video, 4 minutes, color
© 2022 Nolia Noon
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
The rose in the film symbolizes the end of the relationship for both lovers, but the story is propelled by the use of an airplane motif. The film begins with childhood friends flying paper airplanes and transitions to them still enjoying the play as adult lovers. The girl even presents her boyfriend with a paper plane embellished with hand drawn roses, foreshadowing her departure. Ready to move past her childhood ways, she finds a man rich enough to own a real airplane and provide the luxuries that a struggling musician cannot. As an act of defiance, the singer and his band perform Roses in her new lover’s airplane hangar, causing her to realize that wealth is no substitute for love and passion. But alas, the singer has moved on, and he casts her paper plane into the stream where they spent their early years bonding as friends and falling in love, allowing the water to wash him anew.
--Ron Schildknecht
PRAISE
"Roses by Nolia Noon is the perfect song and video with all the elements one could hope for: a love story, a breakup, and a great hook, too!"
--Laura Shine, WFPL
SCREENINGS
2022 Official Selection - Short Film Slam, Louisville Film Society
2023 Official Selection - Capital City Film Festival
2023 Official Selection - Capital City Film Festival
Credits
NOLIA NOON presents
“ROSES”
Featuring LILLY COTTON JARED FOOS MATT SOHL
with CAROLINE COTTON PHILLIP KAPOOR
Music and Lyrics by JARED FOOS
Vocals/Guitar JARED FOOS Bass JOHN ANDREW ROACH Drums NICK BEACH
Director of Photography PAUL PEREZ
Edited by RON SCHILDKNECHT
Locations JOE & KELLY HERTZMAN JOHN COTTON & WENDY MCLAUGHLIN
Story by JARED FOOS AMY FOOS KAPOOR PAUL PEREZ RON SCHILDKNECHT
Production Assistant PHILLIP KAPOOR
Produced by AMY FOOS KAPOOR
Directed by RON SCHILDKNECHT
