A visual feast in three chapters,
Exodus is full of the striking, distinctly African symbolism that Lewis has become known for. Shot in Khayelitsha, the short film is an ambitious move away from both the traditional music video format and stereotypical hip-hop imagery.
Leading global industry trade
Shots named
Exodus a ‘HotShot’ – their monthly picks of the best work to appear on the site.
Hype magazine praised it as “pure visual art”;
OkayAfrica called it “visually stunning”; and
We-Are-Awesome described it as “next level”, while Afripop name-checked Lewis as “increasingly the go-to-guy for the scene’s more pioneering visual treatments”.
Fuseg, Lewis’ previous collaboration with Riky Rick, became the award-winning rapper’s first music video to top one million views on
YouTube.
Lewis won the 2014 South African Music Award for
Best Music Video for The Parlotones’
Sleepwalker and was shortlisted again last year for Tumi’s
In Defense of my Art.
He is repped by
Arcade, a new division of Egg Films that produces content that falls outside the realm of traditional TV commercials, like brand films, music videos, and web series.
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Exodus.