NOWNESS presents another beautiful video which brings together literature and video art and reveals model and actress Clara Paget‘s intensive voice while wandering around a rough sea setting: The contrasting shoreline of Bournemouth on the English south coast and “The Sea Close By” by legendary author and “Master of the Absurd”, Albert Camus are the perfect match; the beach lending an evocative backdrop to Paget’s reading of a passage from Camus’ essay “The Sea Close By” which reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, the sea and sailing.

“I always had an image in my head of a chapter from A Happy Deathby Camus,” explains director and photographer Tom Beard, who recently shot music videos for both celebrated newcomer FKA Twigs and the more established band Florence and the Machine. “It’s a sunny, rich portrait of his life growing up in Algiers—the heat, the sea, good weather; he paints an amazing picture. I wanted to try to do this in a very English way and create a sense of being transported through this extract.”

Watch the visual interpretation of philosopher Albert Camus’ text, starring the rising starlet Clara Paget:

via NOWNESS. Photos: Screenshot.