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Alt-J 'In Cold Blood' by Casper Balslev

Luke Bather - 10th May 2017

Here's a hell of a 'what if' scenario: what if Iggy Pop narrated a nature documentary wherein the animal essentially plays the part of Josh Brolin in the first part of No Country For Old Men?

Well, wonder no more. Casper Balslev's video for Alt-J's In Cold Blood starts off innocently enough. It's the intrepid, wily adventures of your average wood mouse, and it's beautifully shot and majestically paced like the best the BBC can offer - right up until the point where our cute little mousey pal scuttles over a still-fresh disembodied human hand and into the aftermath of what we can only assume was a deal gone very bad indeed.

As far as narrative left-turns go, this one is loaded with visual hooks and mysteries to unpack. But essentially the moral is clear: the dangers faced by the plucky mouse in the natural world, pale in comparison to the darkness perpetrated by humankind.

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Luke Bather - 10th May 2017

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Casper Balslev
Producer
Mikkel Damkiær
Production Company
Production Company
Executive Producer
Thor Brammer Jacobsen
Production Manager
Nicoline Lau Edinger
Head of Music Video
Martin Roker

Camera

Director of Photography
Niels Thastum

Art

Production designer
Anna Gry Skovdal

Editorial

Editor
Anders Albjerg

Commission

Commissioner
Andrew Law
Label
Infectious Music

Other credits

1st AD

Tue Czajkowski

Directors Assistent

Joacim Faugner

B

Unit Camera

Gaffer

Martin Riello

Best Boy

Jonas Madsen

Focus Puller

Thue Garde, Mads Hoppe

2nd AC

Kristoffer Hoyer

Key Grip

Christian Brøndum

Sound Design

Martin Dirkov

Mouse Whisper

Jessie Davidsson

Set Build

Joshua Beckford

Make

up SFX

Make up

Louise Bruun

Wardrobe

My Ringsted

SFX and weapons Hummer Højmark

Car Wrangler

Søren Hvam

Production Coordinator

Lea Sönnichsen

Production Assistent

Linea Cramer

Location Manager

Kristian Nørlyng

Mouse

Syd & friends

Cast

Martine Lindskjold, Jonathan Albrecthsen, Kristian Hedegaard Petersen. Brian Rodrigues, Kenneth Bøtker, Frej Levin, Rainy James, Philip Hoeg, Henrik Queitsch, Kress Bøtel, Ronni Tronborg, Axel Emil Christensen

Post production

Cameo

Grader

Lasse Marcussen

Flame

Bjørn Munch

Post production coordinator

Emma Engberg

Additional Sound mix

Sylvester Holm

Directors Rep Black Dog Films

Holly Wolfers

Luke Bather - 10th May 2017

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