Friday Night Videos: Altered Time
Chemical Brothers: Star Guitar (2002)
Michael Gondry’s video for Daft Punk’s Around the World, in hindsight, looks like a warm-up for this video. It’ll take you a moment to figure out what’s going on. I’d be curious to know at what point you twig to what is the most clever use of this particular music video cliché I’ve seen.
Radiohead: Street Spirit (Fade Out) (1996)
There’s something deeply disturbing about how director Jonathan Glazer fiddles with the speed of events. Some of the video is silly, but the overall effect is one of melancholia. Brr.
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Comment by kat
The Chemical Brothers’ video was great. The reuse of a small bit of footage was really well done, considering that it does take you a minute to realize what’s going on. I also enjoyed the synchronization of sight and sound during the video. Nicely done.
Posted on April 13, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Comment by Danielle
Thought you needed to see another cheesy 80’s video… found on youtube of course..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YcIku1Wfy5I
Boys Don’t Cry - I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Posted on April 16, 2007 at 10:10 am
Comment by Stephen
Er, thanks?
Posted on April 16, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Comment by Jeff
Star Guitar:
Took me about 10 seconds. That’s just awesome. I think I usually react pretty strongly to videos that use that technique. See also my comments on “Take Me Out”.
Street Spirit:
That’s a visually striking technique, and I think it fits the tone of the music very well. There are a few spots where you can almost hear the director saying “Hey! Watch this!”, but overall it I thought it was very well done.
Posted on April 16, 2007 at 8:44 pm