Videos
This is a comprehensive list of Enya’s videos including obscure early versions and specials filmed for TV. If you want to watch the music videos head over to the media page. If you want to buy them, I recommend reading this summary of Enya dvds that’s part of my ‘Collecting Enya’ series. You have choices, y’know. Unless your are Enya filming your first video and they tell you to dress up as punk Boadicea because then you don’t.
Music videos
Locations
A great majority of Enya’s videos are filmed in studio. The entire forest featured in ‘Amarantine’ was digitally painted by Charles Darby and all exteriors in ‘Wild Child’ were part of an elaborate set. But there are exceptions, ‘The Celts’ was filmed in Bodhaim Castle, England; ‘How Can I Keep From Singing?’ in Poison Glen, Ireland and ‘Only If…’ in Mentmore Towers, England. The complete list can be found at the video locations page.
Inspiration
Some of Enya’s earlier videos borrow visuals from existing paintings. ‘Caribbean Blue’ and ‘Anywhere Is’ are nods to works of the American painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish. ‘The Celts’ costume and lake scenes were inspired by ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by John William Waterhouse. ‘On My Way Home’ briefly refers to ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ by John Singer Sargent.
Trains and Winter Rains (edit)
November 2008
Director: Rob O’Connor
Co-director: Mikkel Lundsager
Fashion styling: Rebekah Roy
Time: 3:33
It’s in the rain (edit)
April 2006
Director: Tim Royes
Animation: Filipe Alçada
Academy Films/ BermudaShorts
Time: 3:45
Amarantine (edit)
November 2005
Director: Tim Royes
Digital painting: Charles Darby
Academy Productions Ltd.
Time: 3:05
May It Be (edit)
January 2002
Director: Peter Nydrle
Time: 3:31
Wild Child (edit)
March 2001
Director: Graham Fink
Time: 3:30
Only Time / Only Time (remix)
October 2000
Director: Graham Fink
Time: 3:37
Only If…
December 1997
Director: Dan Nathan
Time: 3:15
On My Way Home (edit)
December 1996
Director: Rob Dickins
Time: 4:25
Anywhere Is (edit)
November 1995
Director: David Scheinmann
Time: 3:46
The Celts
1993
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 3:05
Book of Days (English version)
November 1992
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 2:52
How Can I Keep From Singing?
December 1991
Entertainment Productions
Time: 3:06
Caribbean Blue (edit)
October 1991
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 3:01
Exile
1991
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 3:40
Storms in Africa (II)
June 1989
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 3:01
Evening Falls…
December 1988
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 3:47
Orinoco Flow (edit)
October 1988
Director: Michael Geoghegan
Time: 3:43
The Celts BBC documentary
I Want Tomorrow
1987
Director: David Richardson
Time: 3:54
Aldebaran
1987
Director: David Richardson
Time: 3:06
TV shows
Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night)
December 25, 1996
BBC – Christmas Day in the Morning
Marble Halls
1992
London Weekend Television – Music From The Bridge
Na Laetha Geal M`Óige
1989
BBC – Homeward Bound
On Your Shore
1989
BBC – Homeward Bound
On Your Shore
1989
Early versions
Evening Falls…
1989
Enya singing in the studio, clips of the Irish landscape
Storms in Africa
1989
Enya singing in the studio, clips of the Irish landscape
Boadicea
1987
Enya in the studio, playing the keyboards and singing
Alternative versions
Some videos have more than one version:
May It Be
– two different versions
Wild Child
– regular
– edition with “Calmi Cuori Apassionati” scenes
Only Time
– regular
– edition with “Sweet November” scenes
Only Time (remix)
– regular
– edition with “Wild Child” scenes
The Celts
– with and without the pastel effect like in Caribbean Blue or Orinoco Flow
Evening Falls…
– regular black & white version
– early colour version from the studio
Storms in Africa
– regular version with the English lyrics
– early version from the studio with the Gaelic lyrics
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