najork, January 25, 2006 6:50:21 AM CET
Ex-Telest by Controller 7

A thoroughly enjoyable addition to the 'found footage set to instrumental hip-hop' genre. Anyone know where this is from?
www.controller7.com
Non-streaming, so save to disk.
Else: wmv / u2b.
         
Reminds me of Graffiti Rock and Saved by the Bell combined.
         
can't even begin to figure out where this was from or why it was ever made. Very amusing.

The music was a bit dissapointing - was that the original track? Sparseness doesn't work well here.

This is a genre? Where are more of these?
         
I think the sparseness in the music adds to the tension in the story line. I really thought he was gonna blow it on the dance floor and go full blown CARRIE. But I was suprised to see he had the illest moves of all.
         
UTFO - Beats And Rhymes

Antville: A buncha old-school rap videos
         
Great.
         
superb! i agree jg, the flatbeat track brings out so much subtext. who did this & why? (it says STROM 1984...?) what's the footage from - is that fat albert? was this actually recut (almost doesn't look it)?

(bit slow at first, but streamed ok for me, btw)
         
Sort of joking about the 'genre,' but I was thinking about the Diplo Videos.

Microfiche, thanks for pointing out the original. I'm a little disappointed the footage was a music video, and not something more removed, but the sparse music really puts it in another light.

From Controler7's site- "I re-edited everything in Imovie. I had to make all of the background people's handclaps on beat with my handclaps in the song. I also had to work with the footage that I had, which meant I had to do some tricking editing to get it all to be the right length and still make sense. My first attempt at making a music video."