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The Dead Weather 'Impossible Winner' by Sophie Muller & Ross McDowell

Cat Velez - 9th Feb 2016

Ross McDowell of directing duo Ben & Ross has teamed up with pop video heavyweight Sophie Muller, to create this awesomely eerie video for Impossible Winner, in which rock supergroup The Dead Weather play freakshow captives, jailed in a travelling boxcar.

Book-ended by the same shot of their thuggish captors, the scene depicts the bandmates in a state of nervous despair. Featuring bassist Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs) with six fingers, Jack White with three legs and three arms, Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) with elongated fingers and vocalist Alison Mosshart (of The Kills) looking into a mirror which reflects the back of her head.

Captured at odd angles by DoP Roger Pistole, the remaining jail cells are filled with other troubling characters, such as a man weeping over his dead bride and young girl with rag doll scars taking it all in. Not to mention the dreadful sight of their raging captors, whose mouths take over their entire face...

Cat Velez - 9th Feb 2016

Tags

  • After Effects
  • Surreal
  • VFX
  • Prison
  • Odd
  • Black & White
  • Freakshow

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Sophie Muller
Director
Ross McDowell
Producer
Grant Jue
Production Company
Wondros
Executive Producer
Bethany Gould

Camera

Director of Photography
Roger Pistole
Director of Photography
Giovanni Ribisi

Art

Art Director
Joni Wheeler

Editorial

Editor
Sophie Muller

Grading

Colourist
Tom Russell
Grading company
Preditors

Commission

Commissioner
Dilly Gent

Other credits

Sophie Muller Rep

Tommy Labuda

Ross McDowell Rep

OB Management

Cat Velez - 9th Feb 2016

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