Mykki Blanco ft Woodkid 'High School Never Ends' by Matt Lambert
Luke Bather - 19th May 2016
Mykki Blanco and Matt Lambert deliver an intensely powerful Shakespearean statement of intent - complete with sex, death and politics.
Filmed in rural Germany - and photographed by Martin Ruhe (Control, Harry Brown) – this seven and a half minute mini-epic tells a years-spanning story of the decline of Europe into a 'Left Vs Right' dystopia. Like all things, it isn't quite as easy as that - the world of this narrative is full of complex characters who can be seen to believe one thing whilst acting differently in private. It's a cinematic love story that's brimming with hate (or possibly a hate story with flashes of love).
Its power is in Blanco's role within this film: one that challenges the wider world's views of race and sexuality, and posits very directly that in 2016 this shouldn't still be an issue.
"To me the film is nothing more than a story of love and hate," says Matt Lambert. "It's a love story wrapped in the cyclical nature of conflict that humans seem to thrive on. It's a story of the moral relativity and polarizing forces of humanism and a simultaneous misanthropy that seems to live in all of us."
Mykki Blanco has added: "though The Mykki of "High School Never Ends’ is a character, it is the closest to who I actually am and I felt a trust in Matt Lambert to portray this. I have been living in Europe off and on since 2012 when my career began because audiences seem to accept and acknowledge my creative work there on a larger scale… I'm saying this because I've seen Europe change, I have seen the surface of acceptance and the novelty of my brown skin become a frown in a public square, a belligerent rant in grocery store with a cashier telling me to 'go back to my own country'…
"This story is about outsiders, forbidden love... when the Far Left & the Far Right are willing to go to any extreme to prevail in their truth.”
Luke Bather - 19th May 2016
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Matt Lambert
- Producer
- Jannis Birsner
- Producer
- Alexander Geppert
- Producer
- Julia Dobler
- Executive Producer
- Nils Schwemer
- Executive Producer
- Matt Lambert
- Executive Producer
- Joseph Patel
- Executive Producer
- Robert Semmer
- Production Coordinator
- Kadir Alkan
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Martin Ruhe
Art
- Art Director
- Marie Patzer
Wardrobe
- Costume designer
- Larissa Bechtold
Editorial
- Editor
- Elena Lustig Bromund
- Sound design
- Dennis Beckman
VFX
- VFX
- Bastian Schreitling
- Post production company
- Arri Mitte
Other credits
TELECINE
PHILIPP ORGANZA
MAKE UP
JANA KALGAJEVA
MAKE UP SFX
JULIA GRIESHABER
HAIR ARTIST
SARA MATTHIASSON
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
JULIAN FEUERSTACKE
GAFFER
RICHARD NITSCHE
BESTBOY
CHRISTIAN KUSCHMITZ
KEY GRIP
OLANDO GRÜBEL
FOCUS PULLER
OLIVER MORON
CLAPPER LOADER
JONAS MAINTZ
DATA WRANGLER
DENNIS HELM
SOUND TECHNICIAN
TOBIAS MÜLLER
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT
LUCA FUCHS
ART DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT
JAKOB LAUTER
COSTUME DESIGN ASSISTANT
LUKA MUES
WIG MANUFACTURER
MARC RIEKE
BEHIND THE SCENES
LUKAS KEUCHEL
BASE MANAGER
DENNY HAHNFELDT
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
JOSEFA KNIPPERS
DRIVER / RUNNER
PHILIP NELZ
DRIVER / RUNNER
JAKOB JÜRGENSOHN
DRIVER / RUNNER
JUSTUS TOUSSAINT
BLOCK SERVICE
BAUHOFF FREYENSTEIN
CATERING
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Luke Bather - 19th May 2016