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Arctic Monkeys 'Body Paint' by Brook Linder

Rob Ulitski - 6th Oct 2022

Following frontman Alex Turner's video for There Ought To Be A Mirrorball, Brook Linder picks up the baton to create a breathtaking video, again glorying in the beauty of the moving image of its own sake, for Arctic Monkeys. 

Linder's video for Body Paint is a montage of abstract vignettes, each carefully considered and filmed, building a sense of mystery through the placement and contrast of different visuals and iconography.

It's imbued with themes of vintage cinema and moving image (with the large-scale zoetrope as the most notable example), and peppered with throwbacks to famous paintings and artworks. 

Most importantly, this works brilliantly as a visual accompaniment to the new sonic direction of the band for their forthcoming album The Car, and is all of a piece with Turner's video. It's a homage to the sort of filmmaking by Jean-Luc Godard, the great disruptor of cinema, and others from the classic age of 'arthouse cinema' - but it also feels crisply contemporary. Great work. 

Rob Ulitski - 6th Oct 2022

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  • Rock
  • Montage
  • Abstract
  • Surreal
  • Art
  • Performance
  • Vignette

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Brook Linder
Producer
Ali Khalil
Creative Director
Ben Chappell
Production Company
RadicalMedia
Executive Producer
Ben Schneider
Executive Producer
Jodie Brooks
Production Manager
Us Unit: Nikki Simmons
1st AD
Billie Hallows

Camera

Director of Photography
Frank Mobilio
Focus Puller
Mark Bull
2nd AC
Charlotte Croft

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Danny Hayward
Gaffer
Us Unit: Joe Ramos

Art

Production designer
Us Unit: Nikki Simmons
Production designer
James Soldan

Editorial

Editor
Brook Linder

Grading

Colourist
Kaitlyn Barristelli
Colour grade company

Commission

Commissioner
Johnny Bradshaw
Label
Domino Record Co.

Misc

2nd Unit DoP
Natasha Duursma

Rob Ulitski - 6th Oct 2022

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