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Carnage & Steve Aoki 'Plur Genocide' by The Sacred Egg

Carnage & Steve Aoki 'Plur Genocide' by The Sacred Egg

Lassamie Prasimay - 26th Feb 2018

The Sacred Egg's video for this Carnage track – a collab with Steve Aoki featuring Lockdown – is an awesome clash of the classical and the modern. It's a Renaissance tableau of little cherubs, who happen to be tattooed like LA gangsters, and engaged in mortal combat with each other.

Most of the turbulent power of the piece emanates from the setting and the young characters' aggressive facial expressions (although there is one moment of stomach-churning violence). The action is slowed almost to a standstill, so this really is like a series of classical portraits, like you've never seen before.

THE SACRED EGG:

"From a filmmaking perspective the track is a gift. It has a kind of gritty industrial feel about it, as well as a simplicity that we really like. We knew we wanted to create something beautiful, but also a little bit gritty and aggressive. We ended up landing on this idea of brawling cherubs.

"In our treatment, we referenced scenes from Renaissance paintings. However, we wanted to create something unique. We decided to evolve the visuals by modifying the cherubs giving them modern day touches such as tattoos, silver teeth and pool queues. The track has well-defined sections, so the key was to find a narrative arch that would give the video progression.

"We were lucky to find a cast of kids who were up for the task of playing these cherubs. We shot in the Ukraine where we cast kids from a martial arts school. It was a two day shoot but we factored in plenty of rehearsal time with the kids and a stunt team beforehand so that the shoot ran without flaw.

"We'd like to give a special thanks to the kids who were incredibly professional throughout."

Watch 'Carnage & Steve Aoki 'Plur Genocide' by The Sacred Egg' here

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
The Sacred Egg
Producer
Natalie Arnett
Production Company
1st AD
Andrew Moroz

Camera

Director of Photography
Ben Todd

Art

Art Director
David Kharaishvili

Editorial

Editor
Sam Bould
Editing company
Cut+Run

Grading

Colourist
Richard Fearon

VFX

Post production company
MPC
Post Producer
Ryan Hancocks

Commission

Commissioner
Caitlin Bosse
Label
Indie-pop

Misc

Line Producer
Jane Tredget

Other credits

Service Company

Radioaktive Film

Service Producer

Ole Yakovleva

Post Supervisor

William McNamara

3D/FLAME

Dan Lorenzini

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