Wonderful indeed! For anyone who hasn't seen it, Korine played with the same technique in the amazing video for Will Oldham's No More Workhouse Blues, viewable here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C-MdOZtAKpc
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posted by David Lowery @ 11/30/2007 5:30 AM
I guess everyone sells out these days
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posted by @ 11/30/2007 7:20 AM
To be honest, I think the 'sell-out" comment is kind of tired. Face it, the days in which a film director can continually hone his or her craft through constant film production are over. Someone like Fassbinder, who could make six films a year, was an amazing example of a director who could, film after film, work through ideas, issues, and different ways of approaching his material. But what director, in today's marketplace, can have that level of output? Today I think you see people like Fincher, Gondry, Lynch, Jonze and many others use short-form work (and yes, that includes commercials), to experiment with ideas that then find their ways later into their other work.
Like Lowery, I remember Harmony's Will Oldham video that used a similar technique so I liked seeing how he advanced it another couple of steps in this clip.
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posted by Scott Macaulay @ 11/30/2007 10:40 AM
What's interesting is that there's no motion blur. All of the characters remain in focus -- even hair. Which, barring any Bullettime-type effect, would mean it wa actually shot at a high frame rate. And knowing Korine's preference for digital, the only serious hig-speed HD camera out there is the Phantom.
But that's just speculation.
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posted by @ 11/30/2007 11:51 AM
I love watching commercials by film directors I like. It gives then a chance to experiment and hopefully, raise some money to finance their long-form endeavors.
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posted by Benjamin Crossley-Marra @ 11/30/2007 2:10 PM
