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Death Cab For Cutie 'Gold Rush' by Alex Southam

David Knight - 19th June 2018

Alex Southam's welcome return to music videos for Death Cab For Cutie's excellent Gold Rush is a potent reflection on how the personality of an ordinary neighbourhood is destroyed by popularity. 

Death Cab's frontman Ben Gibbard takes a stroll down the street in his neighbourhood, and in doing so takes a journey through the ages. The city block may not change but Gibbard walks past the characters who inhabited the area over several decades. And as he approaches the present-day, the people become more gentrified, more homogeneous.

And much more numerous. Gibbard's progress is finally stopped by a solid mass of people coming the other way - mostly staring into their phones, of course. It's a powerful metaphor on the way we live now. 

David Knight - 19th June 2018

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Alex Southam
Producer
Matt Day
Production Company
London Alley
Executive Producer
Luga Podesta
1st AD
Allen J. Scudder

Camera

Director of Photography
Nicholas Wiesnet
Focus Puller
Jared Wennberg
2nd AC
Julia Pasternak

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Drew Valenti

Art

Art Director
Susie Francis

Editorial

Editor
Ernie Gilbert

Grading

Colourist
Dan Moran
Colour grade company

Agent

Director's Representation
OB Management

Commission

Commissioner
Phil Botti
Commissioner
Mandee Mallonee
Label
Atlantic

Other credits

Production Supervisor

Michael Hoopingarner

Production Supervisor

Oopey Mason

2nd AD

Teresa Cordts

Steadicam

Colin MacDonnell

David Knight - 19th June 2018

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