Steven Wilson 'Personal Shopper' by Lucrecia Taormina
Rob Ulitski - 11th Feb 2021
Lucrecia Taormina laments consumerism and shopping fever, in the darkly comedic promo for Steven Wilson's Personal Shopper.
In a sleek shopping mall, we are introduced to a man who has just received a huge wad of fifty pound notes. Ready to shop until he drops - quite literally - he visits different shops and counters, swapping parts of his body for bling and new things.
As the shopper exchanges increasingly important parts of himself, from fingers to eyes to lips, the concept only gets more absurd and out of control, with Taormina's flair for the unusual remaining utterly engaging throughout. There's a terrific performance by Robert Lane as the deluded consumer, while DoP Pieter Snyman creates a hyperreal aesthetic through soft beauty lighting and clinical colour palettes of white and shiny metal.
If Apple did body horror adverts, this is what they would look like. Fascinating work.
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Lucrecia Taormina
- Producer
- Joseph J Goldman
- Production Company
- F
- Executive Producer
- Luke Tierney
- Production Manager
- Hugo Holford
- Production Coordinator
- Ash Teague
- 1st AD
- Ty Hack
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Pieter Snyman
- Focus Puller
- Phil Heron
- 2nd AC
- RH
- Steadicam
- Doug Walshe
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- PB
Art
- Art Director
- Oliver Hogan
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Natasha Lawes
- Make-up
- Andrea Gomez Anzola
- Wardrobe
- Flora Huddart
Casting
- Lead actor
- Robert Lane
Editorial
- Editor
- Meg Thorne
Grading
- Colourist
- Richard Fearon
- Colour grade company
- BS
VFX
Commission
- Commissioner
- Natalia Maus
Other credits
2nd AD
Heini Susanne
Grip
Charlie Wyldeck-Flowers
Camera Trainee
Jack Plumbridge
Sparks
James Leech, Matt Simmons, Simona Pran, Greg Probert
Lighting Trainee
Josh Wood
Casting Director
Hannah Ashby Ward @ Lane Casting
SFX Prosthetics
Natasha Lawes
SFX Prosthetics Assist
Jess Heath
SFX Prosthetics Trainee
Alice Platts
Art Department Assist
Jame Middleton, Rupert Wilson, Emily Roberts
Stylist Assist
Molly Robinson
Nails
Natasha Lawes
Movement Director
Simon Donnellon
Runners
Joe Coulson, Tara Sadeghi, Tom Stuart
Location Manager
Dean Whittaker
The Consumer
Robert Lane
Cash Lady
Paula Benson
Shop Owner 1
Jill Buchanan
Shop Owner 2
Stephen Wale
Shop Owner 3
Amy Gallagher
Worshipper 1
Ocean Navarro
Worshipper 2
Karlu Solomon
The Thief
Romano Solano
Edit Producer
Maggie Mcdermott
Edit Assistant
Rob Mcguire
Grade Producer
Polly Durrance @ Black Kite Studios
VFX Artists
Kelvin Chim, Steve Hawken, Rob Chandler, Abi Tomasiewicz
Cast
Rob Ulitski - 11th Feb 2021