MUSIC VIDEOS
For a while, I made a series of low-budget music videos for my friends. This one involved driving around London late at night with a camera filming out of the back window of the car, making a number of felt hand puppets and ventriloquising them to the sound track. Music by The Wolfhounds.
This is a song called "Cheer Up" also by The Wolfhounds. I traced approximately 3000 photographs of the band for this video. Not everything is an endurance test, but more things are than are not.
I have apparently lost the file of the video I made for the Wolfhounds' song, My Legendary Childhood. It had lots of stop motion things in. I made these words from Lambert and Butler cigarettes and hells bells, the house stank of fags for days afterward.
The last video I made for the Wolfhounds was set in the Twin Tunnels, the shorter one, that runs along a disused railway track. I thought the guitar line in the song reminded me of a horror film soundtrack, and I had read that book by Jeff Vandermeer. I had a peculiar idea about meeting something in the tunnel, and then went a bit over the top with placing video as a texture on morphing shapes in Cinema 4D.
Dragon Welding's song "These Are Dangerous Times" was based on a postcard I had of a Russian walled city, the Bayeux tapestry and the animated cartoon Rhubarb and Custard. I would have liked it to be better, but it is not.
I was asked to make a video for the Swedish band, Easy's song, "Ask The Sky". There wasn't any budget and I had a thing about shoving a lot of individual photos into Adobe Premiere and seeing what happened. The band and I pooled all the photographs we had of the sky and I massaged them all into a video. This probably will give you an epileptic seizure if you are that way inclined.
Johan from Easy liked what I did for Ask The Sky, and asked if I was interested to make a video for their next single, I Can't Tell You Why. I'm not suggesting I did not get paid anything for this, but financial remuneration was not something that ever came up. Artists, eh. For this video I copied some pages from a score by Cornelius Cardew and stuck it on home videos from Johan's early life in beautiful Sweden.