mayze, February 27, 2007 9:21:20 PM CET
Coparck, 'A Good Year For The Robots', Dir: KOSMONAUT (Wouter Stoter & Daniel Bruce)
The first music video for the 3rd album of Coparck, one of the few nice bands in the Netherlands

www.coparck.com

MUSIC COPARCK
VIDEO KOSMONAUT

kosmonaut.ru
         
ahh the perfume of Blomkamp.
Nice though. Well done. That little fade at the end killed me. Ought to just cut out.
         
all kinds of great. fantastic performances, attention to detail&coverage. luv it.
         
Touches on being a little sentimental at times. But a four minute narrative with weight and feeling. Very nice.
         
TODDY: If this is the 'perfume of Blomkamp', then he better start collecting and showering himself in it.

This piece is light years ahead of tempbot. Fuckin way passed it.

The fade is not a problem at all. The killer was the electric sheep dream sequence. It's so classy to see the actor and his mannerisms. He's a totally believable robot. But when we segue into the robot's personality adjustment, it gets really serious (robot watching propaganda footage), and really sloppy (boring and ill conceived use of CG) and loses the edge the piece had.

Awesome to see them throw a robot needs a heart party. Why then pay that off with a personality adjustment? The whole too emotional bit...? It's cool, but goes wayyyyy overboard.

The lady could still love him. In fact, so much more interesting to have this normal corporate lady wanting to 'peel the armor' off a robot. And the robot being exactly that, a robot.
         
Actually, I have worked with two people who I think this actor could possibly have modeled his performance after.
Disturbing really.

I figure an abrupt cutout on that great last line would be so much more appealing.

(I stand by it...a little Blomkamp, a little Data-gets-emotion-chip from Star Trek Next Generation and a little The Office. How do you critique this thing other than pointing out references?
(That and pointing out the very last edit.)
         
People, thanks for the criticism.

toddyokoh, just to take away your disturbing feeling, our actor is Paul van der Laan, a Dutch actor from a mime theatre group called Bambi. We just filmed a couple of shots in London. I can't imagine he knows the actors you're talking about.
         
wilkom, comrad mayze. anywhere to see more comraderie?
         
Not yet, this is COMRAD first piece, but here're some links from some of us, you've might have seen already.

www.unheardfilm.nl
projects.planetx.nl
projects.planetx.nl
         
this is great.
         
ah, right, wouter. unheard & don diablo. cool.
         
i am a bit tired of seeing robots. but absolutely well done.
         
The disturbing feeling comes only from feeling like perhaps I have been working with robots and have not known it. This makes it seem all too possible.
         
todd, now i understand what you mean! excuse my english.
yeah i know it is disturbing, there're many robots already among us! check out this teaser

www.youtube.com
         
best of the year?

our essay on wizard of oz, blade runner and coparck is up
         
interview with the directors, Wouter Stoter and Daniel Bruce of COMRAD.
         
High resolution clip up for your pleasure.