Genesis Owusu 'GTFO' by Uncle Friendly
David Knight - 29th July 2022
Uncle Friendly returns to music videos after a six year absence to shoot the new music video for multi-ARIA award-winning Ghanaian-Australian artist, Genesis Owusu, GTFO - and test the viewer's squeamishness at the sight of horrible bugs.
The film opens with Owusu - aka Kofi Ansah - kneeling in prayer before a candle-lit shrine in his home, reciting the song's opening lines. But then something distracts him: a great big cockroach scuttling across his living room floor.
Something clearly must be done about this hideous creature. But what follows is just like one of those old-time cartoons - with Owusu as Wile E Coyote, or Elmer Fudd. His attempts to destroy the offending insect - by bug repellent spray, cricket bat, and whatever comes to hand - has catastrophic results. But only on himself and his apartment, while demonstrating the famed death-defying qualities of the irritatingly indestructable roach.
And it is brilliantly done. This is a superbly daft yet riveting action-comedy from Aussie director Uncle Friendly - aka Rhett Wade-Ferrel. He uses all his experience as a director, writer - and sometime stuntman - to extract the maximum impact from his scenario, eliciting excellent performances from both the artist and his deadly nemesis.
The bug is mainly a CGI creation, in fact, but an entirely convincing one. You may even start rooting for the little critter...
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David Knight - 29th July 2022
Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Uncle Friendly
- Producer
- Martin Box
- Creative Director
- Ady Neshoda/OURNESS
- Production Company
- AIRBAG
- Production Company
- M
- Managing Partner
- Adrian Bosich
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Jack Saltmiras
Art
- Art Director
- Imogen Walsh
Editorial
- Editor
- Graeme Pereira
Grading
- Colourist
- Edel Rafferty
Misc
- Writer
- Kofi Ansah
- Writer
- Uncle Friendly
David Knight - 29th July 2022