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I bloody love Sam Brown.

         

I bloody loved Ant Villers for not posting this lame thing

         

I second the Sam Brown love. A perfect promo.

         

erm, luv sam too, but... none of that worked, in any way, whatsoever. (sorry.)

         

msm? this has only just been finished surely?

I think it's best seen in the context of Sam Brown's oeuvre. All the hallmarks of his work are there... I mean, you could guess it was him without being told. I like the distinctiveness of his vision.

And progosk- what do you mean by it not 'working'? Were you just not moved? Or did the contrasting sections get to you? To get all wanky you could say that he wangles abstraction into his videos.. obstructions to being able to 'read' them like traditional narratives... which is quite subversive when playing with big budgets. I like it.

         

I´ve been waiting so long for this moment since they split in 1997. I always had the hope that they would come back. Sam Brown is one of my fav directors since 2005 but this one is so disappointing, do you understand this vid or is it just some shots randomly edited?

         

For me it's not possible to guess an SB-directed clip, shop. I'm not that much into it. Plus: SBs oeuvre includes more lame things.

         

looks nice. prog, sorry this clip didn't have any 2d cutouts or arts/craft aesthetic

         

i'm with aboves on distinctiveness, and working in abstractions - only here, as swan sez, it just doesn't come together to transcend randomness. sure, the fact the track is majorly meh doesn't help. nonetheless: the undisputable ambition just didn't gel. (mva? ... ah, never mind.)

         

Sam's work is pretty much always lovely.

I was wondering when someone was going to include the Rubens tube in a music video:

hackedgadgets.com

         

very to the point, that, quix: i thought sam'd be beyond meme shit like that.

         

What? This is random eye candy bullshit! I kept giggling all the way through. Surely this is a joke? I for one couldn't take it seriously. Its like a high school kids graduating film project funded by their rich parents. On the other hand i really enjoyed the eagle but i could probably just watch national geographic for that.

         

montage time! and slow track in time! Elegantly photographed and the colour drenched samples of korean syncronised sports girls were nice but whats the point of the quality of production when it hangs together so pointlessly. pleases the eye, dissapoints the brain

         

If you make music videos, you keep hearing this time and time again from the marketing teams, and the tv pluggers... videos should improve a song. If you achieve that, it doesn't matter what it is, how you do it, how much it cost, any of that. I think everyone gets bogged down in the 'art' and the 'craft' and everything else that you forget that we're contracted to do a job, and that job is to help sell records. My own view is that there's some great images in there but the band look like they're just going through the motions. Hire a great dp, and a good box of lenses and you should be able to shoot great images all day long. Question is, did it improve the song?

         

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direct flv.

         

Thks.

         

Was that a commercial for a stock footage business?

         

ehhhhhhhh.

always appreciate SB's color pallette but this is hodgepodge.

Left field weirdness. What was he thinking with the flag spinning dancers?

         

Just food for thought here. Do images always have to have a "meaning?" Can a video be about a series of seemingly disconnected images and be successful?

         

woh, Ashcroft has gotten old

         

To answer your question quixoticnyc,

Yes, can be, has been, will be for years to come. There's a big difference between making something relying on associational imagery and just making a slop pot of high-speed eye candy shots.

It's a common option in the music video world...Some shots of the band interspersed with "other stuff" that may magically create some sort of abstract emotional juxtaposition... even if the director didn't know why, how or what that was. These days it often looks something like this

         

I like this song. There are some striking visuals in here that would work better as stand-alone photographs.