In September, CL Tampa wrote about a collaboration between Tampa filmmaker Miles Cable and rapper Jaden Smith.
Before 2016 called it quits, Cable, 23 and Smith, 18, linked up again to create a video for "Fallen" from a forthcoming project called Syre. The video was naturally picked up by more than a handful of outlets, and it's great to see a Bay area export getting some shine.
"Honestly it's surreal. I had been craving another project with Jaden after we clicked on the previous shoot. He gave me a call when I was back home in Chicago and said get ready to work," Cable, who studied film at the University of Tampa, recently told CL.
"Being able to do what we love and have the masses see it is an unexplainable feeling."
The shoot for "Fallen" — where Smith stumbles around what looks like a western set — went quickly, unlike the one for "Like This" which experienced a short delay. The pair, along with Cables's business partner AJ Favicchio, linked up with Smith to talk about a concept and worked together to build it out, nail it down and film in the Calabasas area about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles
"Working with Jaden is incredible, we both share very similar creative juices, in the sense that we both are down for out of the box, and strange ideas. He is super easy to work with and always is a great dude on set," Cables added. "It is beyond a professional friendship at this point. We met up at his house to premier [sic] it with the crew, and then Jaden came over to my place a couple times to put the final touches on the edit. We were both so stoked with what we created, and when he texted Kid Cudi the image, Cudi was hyped. That was too surreal for me!"
Watch the clip, filmed on a RED Epic Dragon outfitted with Leica R Lenses, below. Check out Cables's other collab with Smith here.
This article appears in Jan 12-19, 2017.