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Sam Akpro 'Chicago Town' by Pedro Takahashi

Rob Ulitski - 15th July 2024

Pedro Takahashi reunites with alt-rocker Sam Akpro to conjure a trippy visualizer for the track Chicago Town. 

The video features a kaleidoscopic amalgam of performance and portraits, distorted with post effects, including videogrammetry. Marrying nostalgic digital footage and new technology, the visual celebrates the city - London, that is - but with a haunting undercurrent. 

"Chicago Town is a love letter to the city of London," explains Takahashi. "We wanted to show it in all its beauty but also highlight the harshness of the city and the effect it can have on people. Using VFX and datamoshing, we wanted to degrade and abstract faces and locations to the point where they were unrecognizable.

"Being a visualizer, we were able to be more loose than we would be with a normal video, and this gave us a chance to experiment with lots of interesting new techniques."

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Rob Ulitski - 15th July 2024

Tags

  • Director's notes
  • Performance
  • Indie
  • Alternative
  • Performance
  • VFX
  • London
  • Distortion
  • Trippy
  • Visualizer
  • Datamosh

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Pedro Takahashi
Producer
Fred Qvortrup
Production Company
Executive Producer
Nicole Hartley

Camera

Director of Photography
Max Conran
Creative Director Of Videogrammetry & Generative
Brenden Singh
Processing/Creative Technologist
Mike Caronna

Rob Ulitski - 15th July 2024

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