Filmmaker Judith Redding made this video for genero.tv’s competition to create the official music video for Ólafur Arnalds’s song “This Place Was a Shelter,” from his latest album, For Now I Am Winter. Icelander Arnalds has toured with band Sigur Rós, has written instrumental intros and outros for German metal band Heaven Shall Burn’s album Antigone, and has released two previous solo albums. His music also appeared in the film The Hunger Games. Judith Redding’s short film, shot entirely in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, uses urban blight to illustrate how we have neglected and abandoned our shelters, our homes and churches.

Judith Redding’s award-winning short films have been screened at national and international film festivals and broadcast on American public television. She is the co-author of Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors, which profiles 33 of independent film’s finest. Judith studied at the London International Film School in London, England, and now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.