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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Brook Linder
- Producer
- Creative Director
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- Executive Producer
- Executive Producer
- Production Manager
- 1st AD
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Focus Puller
- 2nd AC
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Gaffer
Art
- Production designer
- Production designer
Editorial
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- Colourist
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Rob Ulitski - 6th Oct 2022