Jackson And His Computerband 'Dead Living Things' by Alex Courtès
David Knight - 9th Sept 2013
A marvellous video for Warp signing Jackson And His Computerband's Dead Living Things - featuring the distinctive vocal stylings of Planningtorock - by Alex Courtès, that really is good for repeated viewings.
It has an impenetrably surreal, vignette-style that has become quite familiar - and Alex has commented on its debt to other notable filmmakers, saying on the Warp Records site that "this project is a direct reference to the works of Fellini and David Lynch. It is a juxtaposition of life scenes and actions that have nothing to do with each other in particular, that however create a fantastic dynamic and resolutely surreal experience.”
Absolutely. But it's worth adding that the film really has the true quality of a dream. These scenarios are conjured from imagination, like a random dreamer's thoughts, with a coherent narrative just tantalisingly out of reach.
David Knight - 9th Sept 2013
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Alex Courtès
- Producer
- Jules de Chateleux
- Line Producer
- Jean Davi
- Production Company
- D
- 1st AD
- Francois Lizé
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Mathieu Plainfosse
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Olivier Benoist
- Grip
- Sebastien Grasso
Art
- Production designer
- Marie D'Alençon
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Alain Tamaya
- Make-up
- Djoher Ait Amer
- Make-up
- Béatrice Han Ching
- Wardrobe
- Joy Sauvage
Editorial
- Editor
- Nicolas Larrouquere
VFX
- Post production company
- Home Digital Pictures
- Post Producer
- Paul Crehange
Commission
- Label
- Warp
Misc
- Location Manager
- Amaury Brougalay
David Knight - 9th Sept 2013