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Paolo Nutini 'Iron Sky' by Daniel Wolfe

Davis Silis - 7th Aug 2014

You can never be sure how likely or often a great music video director is to return once they’ve begun flexing their cinematic muscles in longer formats. Jonze makes the occasional appearance. Gondry rocks back up once in a while with something as witty as always. Wolfe?

Goddamn.

With his first video in two years, this time for Paolo Nutini’s Iron Sky, and just after finishing his already-acclaimed debut feature Catch Me Daddy, Wolfe doesn’t just return to music videos, he punches straight to the gut. 

Like what.

Nutini’s voice howls above eight minutes of unnerving, haunting images. Each shot filled with its own form of agony. A distant dystopia that feels uncomfortably familiar. Pervasive desperation. Visceral brutality. Looking for salvation through religion and chemicals in equal measure.

Wolfe manages to create a video that is as distressing as it is beautiful. Insightful. Alarming. While others take what they’ve learned in music videos to features, he’s brought it all back; an earnest cinematic poetry that’s increasingly rare in our industry.

Six minutes in, the crawling tilt down a 20th century fresco while an extract of Chaplin's The Great Dictator is heard betrays the level at which Wolfe is now creating; a shot that will no doubt be referenced on the silver screen, let alone other videos.

Like any great work of film, there’s so much to unpack. And at its core, a truth about us we’d rather not acknowledge.

Goddamn. Tremendous work.

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Daniel Wolfe
Producer
Lee Groombridge
Production Company
Executive Producer
Tim Nash
Executive Producer
Sally Campbell
Executive Producer
Matthew Wolfe
Production Manager
Peter Arboine

Camera

Director of Photography
Robbie Ryan

Art

Production designer
Robin Brown

Wardrobe

Wardrobe
Holly Waddington

Editorial

Editor
Tom Lindsay
Editing company

Grading

Colourist
Simon Bourne
Colour grade company
Framestore

Commission

Commissioner
Dan Curwin
Label
Atlantic Records

Misc

Head of Music Video
Tash Tan
Online
Framestore
2nd Unit DoP
Deepa Keshvala

Other credits

Co-writer

Matthew Wolfe

Directors Assistant & Unit Stills

Alex Hulsey

Service company

Radioactivefilm

Executive line producer

Darko Skulsky

Line producer

Tanya Neistova

Production manager

Nick Semko

Production assistant

Egor Pogrebnyak

Production assistant

Olya Kosenko

1st AD

Anya Buryachkoba

2nd AD

Andrew Morozov

Gaffer

Sergey Svetnoy

Location managers

Borys Grishkevich, Roman Pavlenko

Stylist

Valentin Bren

Art-director

Max Halushka

Make-up

Ira Solodovskaya

Stunts

Ilya Yurchishin

Casting

Nika Bondar, Marina Kravchenko

Casting managers

Marina Svetlay, Lena Volynska, Nataliya Marchenko

Playback

Yan Vahovsky

Rental house

Illuminator

Davis Silis - 7th Aug 2014

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