Wintersleep 'Amerika' by Scott Cudmore
There's a lot happening in this short film by Scott Cudmore. A cinematic visual accompaniment to Wintersleep's Amerika is a multi-faceted vision of an all-too-close-to-home sociopolitical dystopia, with a weakening of the human condition and a biblical apocalypse colliding with one another in a disquieting and harrowing beauty.
The video deviates from a normal 'rock' video by favouring slower pacing and delivering a feeling of menace and foreboding from multiple isolated narrative perspectives.
The payoff is a gut-punching set of gorgeous visuals that demand you sit and watch for the entire length of nearly seven minutes. The final lines of dialogue damn near killed me...
Credits
| Director | Scott Cudmore |
| Editor | Scott Cudmore |
| Production Company | Revolver Films |
| Producer | Jason Aita |
| Production Coordinator | Katy Maravala |
| Production Coordinator | James Gilchrist |
| Director of Photography | Peter Hadfield |
| 1st AC | Rico Moran |
| Art Director | Mark Martin |
| Assistant Art Director | Lisa Vanderwyk |
| VFX | Jacob Owens |
| Colourist | Clinton Homuth |
| Executive Producer | Richard Cureton |
| Executive Producer | Luc Frappier |
| Production Assistant | Charles Hutchings |
| Production Assistant | Scott Frettwell |
| Label | Dine Alone Records |
| Director's Rep (UK) | Lock It In |
| Other credits | Produced with the financial assistance of muchFACT (http://www.muchfact.ca) |
