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stripedcollar, January 21, 2005 12:00:57 AM CET
Two great Dr. Strangelove-esque music videos
tagged Strangelove-influenced videos
These are two really fantastic videos reminiscent of the theme/style/subject matter of Kubrick's masterpiece Dr. Strangelove (great movie by the way).

MUSE - TIME IS RUNNING OUT



The second best out of the two and the most blatantly Strangelove. Gets a little repetitive, but packs a punch.

www.ifilm.com (all formats and sizes)

AIR - SURFING ON A ROCKET



Fantastic absurd and satirical video. I haven't heard of the director, but I hope he makes more.

atomfilms.shockwave.com (all formats and sizes)
         
You could also add the Gondry directed clip for Lenny Kravitz...."Believe" I think is what it's called.
I remember also there was a Matthew Sweet video from about 10 years ago that utilized actual footage from 2001. The director claimed it was on a reel of public domain footage or something like that. Wish I could remember the name of the video.

Also, for any other Kubrick lovers, I just found this today:
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/film/work/facts/00301.htm
         
SURFING ON A ROCKET is by alex&martin (partizan)
For 2001 you can add the radiohead vid where tom sing in a bottle where water is being poured. You have all the reflections ala 2001. can't remember the dir.
         
"No Surprises" by Grant Gee
         
that taschen kubrick book looks great, the $200US price tag is kinda steep, but it looks very comprehensive. i think there was an exhibition of his archives in Germany last year, and that this book is a compliation of that event.
         
hmmm I'd say the Muse one is more 2001 than Strangelove - one I can think of which is very Strangelove (or maybe War Games) is this video which was in the last RES DVD issue - don't know the name, it was all static shots, and took place in an old-school computer facility. Everything was on and running; the place looked evacuated- very whimsical music, and the computer monitors indicated thst Nuclear war between the US and the USSR had just begun. Maybe it got a tad boring but it was a nice video.
         
The Muse video set just looked like the conference room where the president of the U.S. calls the Russian president from Strangelove. And the video was for a song by Etienne Charry called A-bomb. It's not bad.
         
@captainmarc22 That is a video i did! I agree it was boring after 1'30! (but bore was actually a feature!)
         
AI: post the vid man! Would love to see it.
         
i'll post one when i'll make one good!
         
ai it was good. Very minimalist. The song was dope too. Shit man, it made it in RES which can't be said for 99% of the videos out there.

also I confused the Muse video w/ the spaceship one - Song for Absolution - which itself was a pretty boring video.
         
"it made it in RES which can't be said for 99% of the videos out there.
" Someone helped me but like i said before i'm the son of a celebrity. lol.
         
AI: Are you going to keep using this celebrity handle? Either tell us or drop it.
         
What is the name of the video?
         
Etienne Charry's A-Bomb, as stripedcollar pointed out.

So ai is Jan Brzeczkowski? "..studied animation and graphics at Paris' Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Arts Decoratifs and has worked for five years [at the time of publication] in all aspects of computerized imaging. "A-Bomb" is his first video."
         
Jan Brzeczkowski->JB->BJ->AB.IJ->AI =two Kubrick references: HAL and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).