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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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
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Gabriella Sharma
- Make-up
- Brittany Fontaine
- Wardrobe
- Mark Holmes
Editorial
- Editor
- Ernie Gilbert
Grading
- Colourist
- Dan Moran
- Colour grade company
- CP
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