802 'A Heavy Metal Bedtime Story' by Casper Balslev
Rob Ulitski - 9th Mar 2023
Casper Balslev directs a marvellous music film for Danish alt-rock band 802's song My Girl - an absorbing coming-of-age tale, subtitled A Heavy Metal Bedtime Story.
Featuring and inspired by the track - which is 802's debut single - we are introduced to a goth teenage girl who feels alone in the world - until she visits a car graveyard and finds an old rusty hearse with a coffin in it. Inside the coffin lies another goth girl, exactly like herself. And then these two young outcasts go on a rampage through the local neighbourhood...
Exploring those liminal moments of youth, when the world seems to stop and you feel stuck in limbo between different time periods, the video has a rebellious feeling that bubbles under the surface, threatening to spill over in a riotous sequence of events.
Dark, enigmatic and utterly captivating, it's a brilliant video with idiosyncratic characters, cinematic locations and a vibrant, nostalgia-tinged aesthetic.
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Rob Ulitski - 9th Mar 2023
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Casper Balslev
- Producer
- Casper Balslev
- Producer
- Andreas Asingh
- Production Company
- n
- Executive Producer
- Thor Brammer Jacobsen
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Marcel Zyskind
- Focus Puller
- Otto Zyskind
- Jacob Buchhave
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Kasper Morville
Wardrobe
- Wardrobe
- Camilla Nordbjerg
Casting
- Lead actor
- Roberta Bellan Asingh
- Lead actor
- Marta Møller Asingh
Editorial
- Editor
- Christoffer Schuricht
Grading
- Colourist
- Cameo
- Colourist
- Lasse Marcussen
- Colour grade company
- Cameo
VFX
- VFX
- Onki Vfx
Agent
- Director's Representation
- n
Misc
- DoP's representation
- Viewfinder Cph
Rob Ulitski - 9th Mar 2023