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Ghostly International Week: “Com Truise - Brokendate” by Will Joines
Director: Will Joines
Producer: Sarah Romney
DOP: Zoe White
Editor: Graham Mason and Zach Clark
Art Director : Lisa Green
Starring: Quincy Dunn-Baker
The third and final part of our Ghostly International Week featuring - our first ever theme week. Ghostly is one of the most famous American labels for electronic music, known for releases by artists like Dabrye, Legowelt, DMX Crew; or to cite more recent ones, Golden Panda, Matthew Dear or Phantogram.
After featuring Nathan Corbin and Charles Bergquist videos earlier this week, we will take a look at the music video “Brokendate” of self-called “synth obsessive” music artist Com Truise. Director Will Joines had the chance to completely come out of his shell and create a five minutes of a somehow psychedelic parallel world. The mix of 80s cop shows, film noir and futuristic implemented fights between the mysterious underdog and the evil villain are a perfect fit for Com Truise’s offbeat electro sounds. This is retro-futuristic music meets it’s visual counterpart. We like!
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PERMALINK: November 30, 2011 |
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Ghostly International Week: “Matthew Dear - Slowdance” by Charles Bergquist
Directed by Charles Bergquist
Director Of Photograhy : Charles Bergquist & Mark Shonka
Starring: Nicole Lively
Hair and Make Up : Chantall Northrop
Stylist / Wardrobe : Katrina Adair
Our second installment of “Ghostly International Week”: our first ever theme week. Ghostly is one of the most famous American labels for electronic music, known for releases by artists like Dabrye, Legowelt, DMX Crew; or to cite more recent ones, Golden Panda, Matthew Dear or Phantogram. On monday we featured Nathan Corbins video for HTRK’s track Bendin.
Today we’d like to show another great Ghostly Piece, this time by Charles Bergquist for Matthew Dear’s track Slowdance.
Again it is difficult to decipher what really catches you when watching the video. Objectively speaking, it is just a girl sprawling in a bed in combination with some visual effects and urban landscapes. But non objectively it really gets to you. As Bergquist puts it “She, the environment shared, and the unknown becomes blended, fractured and infinitely heaped together.” The complete absence of color with the aqueous imagery simply leaves you speechless.
Stay tuned for more marvelous Ghostly work on friday. We sure will.
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PERMALINK: November 28, 2011 |
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Ghostly International Week: “HTRK - Bendin” by Nathan Corbin
Directed by Nathan Corbin
This is the first installment of “Ghostly International Week”, our first ever theme week. Ghostly is one of the most famous American labels for electronic music, known for releases by artists like Dabrye, Legowelt, DMX Crew; or to cite more recent ones, Golden Panda, Matthew Dear or Phantogram. And, of course, the great HTRK (=”Hate Rock”). What we especially like about Ghostly is that lately, they also developed a distinctive visual identity with their music videos. That’s why we like to dedicate a few articles to present some of those on Ravished.
Well… it’s hard to find words for what we see here. But somehow, it’s going really deep and gets under your skin. The beautiful cinematography and perfect paced editing have their part in it, sure, so does the lush and sombre title track. This is a truly mesmerizing music video which transcends you into some hidden corners of your subconscious. And there’s also a sense of dark mystery to it which is not explainable. Director Nathan Corbin (of NY band Excepter) still tries:
“An alien crash lands in downtown LA, breaking a water main. Balancing itself against the Earth’s gravity, the alien bends and twists out of sight from firemen inspecting the damage. It finds seclusion in the city’s little used elevators and escalators. It tries to drink water but can’t swallow. The alien wanders into an arcade. Men play pool surrounded by a dozen TVs all playing the same soap opera. These humans, waiting for the bus or floating down the boardwalk on segways, seem all the more estranged. Yet the alien puts this circus of weirdos at unease. The alien twists down the boardwalk with it’s energy drink in imitation of the humans around it…impossibly trying to fit in.
Jonnine and Nigel both play the alien. ‘Bendin” is dance video, literalizing the song’s themes of bending and twisting in the movements of the alien.” (via Visitation Rites)
Kind of obvious, right? However, be sure to come back wednesday for the next installment of our music video week.
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