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Two Door Cinema Club 'Are We Ready? (Wreck)' by THUNDERLIPS

David Knight - 7th July 2016

After their excellent videos for the likes of LarzRanda and Sheep, Dog & Wolf in New Zealand, Auckland-based directing duo Jordan Dodson and Sean Wallace - aka THUNDERLIPS – make an impressive first British video for the returning Two Door Cinema Club. It is a thing of grotesque, slightly bewildering beauty.

In the the video for Are We Ready? (Wreck) video, the three members of TDCC are all noxiously cheesy spokesmen for a series of terrible ads for brands with names corresponding to the song's lyrics. Two of them have been luridly transformed, by Melissa Lackersteen's makeup job, into puffy-faced, surgery-enhanced versions of themselves. But there's a battle going on between this artificiality and reality underneath, expressed through lead singer Alex Trimble's angst and slowly disintegrating face.

It's visually arresting and audacious, and after a couple of views (maybe trying to figure it out what's going on), another catchy TDCC song will be stuck in your brain.  

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David Knight - 7th July 2016

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
THUNDERLIPS
Producer
Rupert Savage
Production Company
Good Egg
Executive Producer
John Hassay
Production Manager
Joshua Carter
1st AD
Tibo Travers

Camera

Director of Photography
James Blann
Focus Puller
Chris Pollitt
2nd AC
Jomar O'Meally

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Nick Leishman

Grading

Colourist
Richard Fearon
Grading company
MPC
Grade Producer
Hannah Ruddleston

Commission

Commissioner
Sam Seager

Misc

Camera Trainee
Cat Velez
Art Department
Felix Coles

Other credits

Runner

Joe Salkey

Runner

Wayne Bentley

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