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Geese 'Taxes' by Noel Paul

Rob Ulitski - 16th July 2025

Noel Paul directs a characteristically immersive and offbeat promo for American rock band Geese.

The video for Taxes takes place at an intimate gig, with the first thirty seconds or so shot lo-fi on a mobile phone. But then it's all turned on its head, ramping up into a mesmerising fever dream of dancing, fighting and melting faces.

"When Cameron sings 'nail me down', everything changes," explains Paul. "The format morphs from strictly phone footage to a hodgepodge of textures and frame rates.

"The action becomes dislocated from documentary reality, instead taking the form of abstract isolated shots of expressions and gestures being repeated endlessly and maniacally by the people in the crowd. It's like we're inside a contemporary version of some medieval painting of the Damned, writhing and carousing in ecstasy and agony as they are herded towards Hell's gaping maw.

"Our crowd now becomes a vehicle for exploring a cavalcade of human expressions, gestures, and simple actions, boiled down to some kind of fetishized essence by way of filming them in hyperspeed with endlessly repeating manic motion. A simple action repeated over and over again and filmed in this style becomes mesmerizing and absurd and ritualistic."

Brilliantly frantic and executed to perfection, it's a standout visual.

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Rob Ulitski - 16th July 2025

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  • Director's notes
  • Alternative
  • Rock
  • Performance
  • Fighting
  • Mobile phone
  • Offbeat
  • Intimate
  • Immersive

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Noel Paul
Producer
Lucy Rennick
Production Company
Executive Producer
Mel Giles
1st AD
Eliana Roseen
Service EP
Miranda Kahn Service Production Company

Camera

Director of Photography
Léa Taillefer
Focus Puller
Thomas Cameron
2nd AC
Oona Mozelle

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Adam Reichardt
Key Grip
Alexei Topounov

Art

Production designer
Saara Untracht-oakner
Kaceylin Prinea

Wardrobe

Make-up
Nina Carelli

Choreography

Movement Director
Monica Mirabile

Casting

FEATURED EXTRAS
Rubina Vidal, Carsyn Parmelee, Emma Ruth Matthews, Allison Hsu, Julia Chrzanowski, Laini Sharifi, Elizabeth Ross, Andy Nappi, Amouri Edwards, Agnes Walsh, Skyler Doud, Georgia Gooding, Kevin Nguyen, Tony Gray, Henry Kallerud, Jamie Walker, William Newman,, Leo Kennedy, Dennis Dayan Torin Cox, Teddy Davis BACKGROUND

Editorial

Editor
Noel Paul

Grading

Colourist
Belal Hibri

Agent

Director's Representation
Leethal Reppin'

Commission

Commissioner
Jake Crossland
Label
Partisan Records

Rob Ulitski - 16th July 2025

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