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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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Rob Ulitski - 11th Feb 2021

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  • Comedy
  • Narrative
  • Pick of the Day
  • Surreal
  • Progressive Art Rock
  • Body Horror
  • Mall
  • Shopping
  • Consumerism

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Lucrecia Taormina
Producer
Joseph J Goldman
Production Company
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
Steadicam
Doug Walshe

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer

Art

Art Director
Oliver Hogan

Casting

Lead actor
Robert Lane

Editorial

Editor
Meg Thorne

Grading

Colourist
Richard Fearon
Colour grade company

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

Cast

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

Rob Ulitski - 11th Feb 2021

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