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PUP 'KIDS' by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux

Promo News - 19th Mar 2019

After their great 'origin' videos Guilt Trip and Sleep In The Heat, PUP and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux now flash-florward 40 years, to the band's dotage, in a grimly believable dystopian version of Canada.

KIDS finds the band, playing themselves in heavy old man prosthetics, broken up and forgotten, with each member living out their own futuristic worst fears (both for their own lives and the world's). When Stefan, their long lost frontman, is discovered in a backwoods trailer, the newest member of the family forces them to confront their legacy, friendship and mortality.

Schaulin-Rioux's tenth video for the band is as heartfelt as all the previous ones, with excellent detail on very unequally distributed technological advancement. It's characteristically bleak, and over the top, but also surprisingly elegaic.

But surely, this can't be the end, can it...?

JEREMY SCHAULIN-RIOUX:

This is our tenth music video working together, which I think is a pretty rare run

"We were all feeling extra anxious about the ever more horrible state of our world so it felt pretty natural to try and set something in the shitty future. The band are all big Back To The Future / Blade Runner / Idiocracy / Demolition Man fans and they quickly built a Google doc of all their favourite post-apocalyptic jokes and we tried to cram as many in as possible. This is our tenth music video working together, which I think is a pretty rare run."

Promo News - 19th Mar 2019

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux
Producer
Amanda Fotes
Production Company
Mad Ruk Entertainment
Executive Producer
Matt Power, Rey Mendoza
Production Manager
Meika Wagner
1st AD
Aidan Shipley

Camera

Director of Photography
Diego Guijarro
Focus Puller
Aiden Carter
2nd AC
Gianluca Basile

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Alex Poutianen

Art

Art Director
Alexis Debad

Casting

Lead actor
Jessica Avsenik, Pup

Editorial

Editor
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux

Grading

Colourist
Zach Cox

Agent

Director's Representation
Mad Ruk Entertainment

Commission

Commissioner
Joe Goldberg, Mac Cregan
Label
Little Dipper

Other credits

Fashion Line By Hayley Elsaesser

Sound Design By Spencer Sunshine

Promo News - 19th Mar 2019

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