Kanye West 'Blkkk Skkkn Head' by Nick Knight
David Knight - 26th July 2013
Nick Knight's video for Kanye West's superb afro-glam-rock mash-up Black Skinhead is here – following their collaboration on the New Slaves video (presented as a series of 'guerilla' outdoor projections a few weeks ago) and much of the visuals surrounding Kanye's Yeezus album.
This is, perhaps predictably, an intense experience - and minimal. A CG version of Kanye performs the song against black (after that first shot of KKK-like hoods in black). He's initially lifelike (with more defined abs) and then becomes more extreme and digitally messed-up as it progresses. But the view-only video is just one way to experience Blkkk Skkkn Head.
The interactive version on kanyewest.com allows you to speed up, slow down and take and share screenshots of the video with a cursor.
On Twitter, a typically bullish Kanye has described Nick Knight's video as "a step towards the possibilities of internet based video" then asking his followers: "please don't diminish the user experience by just posting it as a normal video … please link them to my site."
No problem. So click 'Watch Here' to experience the full interactive version of Blkkk Skkkn Head...
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David Knight - 26th July 2013
Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Nick Knight
- Producer
- Juliette Larthe
- Production Company
- P
- Production Manager
- Hannah May
Camera
- Focus Puller
- Jeremy Fusco
Art
- Art Director
- Simon Foxton
Wardrobe
- Make-up
- Isamaya French
Editorial
- Editor
- Carly Baker
Agent
- Director's Representation
- Charlotte Knight
Misc
- VFX Director
- Drew Arnold
- 3D Scanning & Modelling
- Kevin Stenning
- 3D Scanning & Modelling
- Peter Valkanoff
- Motion Capture
- Dynamixyz & Centroid
- Compositor
- Drew Arnold
- Compositor
- Scott Altman
- 3D Animator
- Maximillion Mallman
- 3D Animator
- Will Broadbent
- 3D Animator
- Jason Mayo
- DIT
- Nelson Oliver
- DIT
- Jay Patel
David Knight - 26th July 2013