Hi everyone,
please remember to post yr link to yr favourite music video and a par about the reasons for your choice
to get things rolling here is mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA
Björk··All is Full of Love
released April 1999
commissioner Paul McKee at One Little Indian, UK
PRODUCTION
company Black Dog Films
director Chris Cunningham
producer Cindy Burnay
director of photography John Lynch
production designers Chris Cunningham, Julian Caldow
art director Chris Oddy
model effects Mattes & Miniatures
robot design Chris Cunningham
robot builder Paul Catling
robot model assistants James McKeown, Liam Williams
I like the way that the performance of the robot captures the key tropes of Bjork's persona: cool, high tech, experimental but also infused with an odd sense of pathos and a real vulnerability. Its one of Chris Cunningham's most eloquent music video conceptions and is far clearer than his own statements about it eg:
"When I first heard the track I wrote down the words 'sexual,' 'milk,' 'white porcelain,' 'surgery.' [The video]'s a combination of several fetishes: industrial robotics, female anatomy, and fluorescent light in that order." (Dazed and Confused)
"I think I mentioned that I think it should be ... something that's white and frozen, and then it sort of melts, because of love, and making love."
Chris Cunningham
http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/bjork.html
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3 comments:
I love the futuristic feel to the video although after finding out that Bjork had no creative influence towards it, it did leave me slightly disappointed.
The use of a robot as a substitute for Bjork is very interesting and adds to the experimental persona that she has as a performer.
I agree with Dean on how interesting the use of the robot is. There is something fascinating about the music videos in which the musicians make an appearance in some form which has been altered as result of the possibilities that media technologies offer; Bedshaped and Take Me On are other examples of this.
Where does this fit in the performance matrix? Is there much difference between filming Bjork's facial expressions then superimposing on them to the robot and filming Clint Eastwood's squint then editing it into the narrative of a film? In the seminar it was suggested there wasn't. However, things like the robot Bjork are being used to construct persona for the artist, so there is a greater interplay between the character being presented and the person Bjork really is. Are music video's more complex than normal films?
(Am I confusing myself- yes, I need to think this one through!)
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