#brook linder

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Astonished Man by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Directed By Brook Linder

[live-and-die-in-la]

The field team did an excellent job. So many gorgeous shots.

John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA.

[antronaut]

The Artist As Producer, Quarry, Thread, Director, Writer, Orchestrator, Ethnographer, Choreographer, Poet, Archivist, Forger, Curator, and Many Other Things First.

[jetskisonyourmoat]

In a perfect world the Monkeys ‘doc’ would be like 10 hours of raw uncut footage of the band just doing whatever.

[soovermyself]

Excuse me lady, who gave you the right to look this good?! 🥵😍

Slaying at Fashion Week on September 8, 2023 in NYC 🤩

[jungleindierock]

Kings Of Leon - Mustang

Brook Linder directs the video for Mustang which is the first taste of music from the new Kings Of Leon album, Can We Please Have Fun, which is out 10th May 2024.

If you’re free tomorrow don’t make any plans We can go to sylvan park and kick over trash cans Love is all around me everywhere I turn Is that the smell of fall or the city burned

There’s a mustang in the city And it's calling me out Are you a mustang or a kitty What are you all about

There’s a golden globe in my office space A muscle magazine next to the toilet I’m getting big and strong just thinking about it And I can feel the heat of the water rise

There’s a mustang in the city And it's calling me out Are you a mustang or a kitty What are you all about

I saw em operating on the kid downstairs I could not be bothered to pretend to care I like to watch you eat in front of the camera And there’s a misty morning in your eyes

There’s a mustang in the city And it's calling me out Are you a mustang or a kitty What are you all about It’s just a mistake and a pity And its drowning the crowd Are you a mustang or a kitty Are you a mustang or a kitty

There was something amiss in your apology

There’s a mustang in the city And it's calling me out Are you a mustang or a kitty What are you all about It’s a mistake and a pity Dragging me down Are you a mustang or a kitty Are you a mustang or a kitty

[medium-observation]

DECEMBER RELEASE

Boop! The Musical - Chicago Tryout

December 3, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video | Matinée

Cast:

Jasmine Rogers (Betty Boop), Faith Prince (Valentina), Ainsley Anthony Melham (Dwayne), Erich Bergen (Raymond), Stephen DeRosa (Grampy), Angelica Hale (Trisha), Phillip Huber (Pudgy), Anastacia McCleskey (Carol), Lawrence Alexander (Ensemble), Colin Bradbury (Ensemble), Tristen Buettel (Ensemble), Joshua Michael Burrage (Ensemble), Gabi Campo (Ensemble), Daniel Castiglione (Ensemble), Rebecca Corrigan (Ensemble), Josh Drake (Ensemble), RJ Higton (Ensemble), Nina Lafarga (Ensemble), Morgan McGhee (Ensemble), Aubie Merrylees (Ensemble), Ryah Nixon (Ensemble), Christian Probst (Ensemble), Ricky Schroeder (Ensemble), Gabriella Sorrentino (Ensemble), Brooke Taylor (Ensemble)

Notes: Nice video from the second week of previews and Version 3.0. Some scenes are majorly wideshot due to the nature of the show, along with usher activity. Some washout can be seen at times but it's not too bad.

NFT DATE: June 6th, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB5Cro

Video is $20

Six - Second US National Tour (Boleyn)

November 19, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video | Matinée

Cast:

Cassie Silva (s/b Catherine of Aragon), Zan Berube (Anne Boleyn), Aryn Bohannon (s/b Jane Seymour), Terica Marie (Anna of Cleves), Taylor Pearlstein (s/b Katherine Howard), Courtney Mack (t/r Catherine Parr)

Notes:

Excellent video of a fantastic group of alternates and Courtney's unexpected final performance as Parr!

NFT DATE: December 1st, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB3Ye3

Video is $20

Mrs. Doubtfire - First US National Tour

November 16, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Rob McClure (Daniel Hillard), Maggie Lakis (Miranda Hillard), Giselle Gutierrez (Lydia Hillard), Cody Braverman (Christoher Hillard), Emerson Mae Chan (Natalie Hillard), Aaron Kaburick (Frank Hillard), Nik Alexander (Andre Mayem), Romelda Teron Benjamin (Wanda Sellner), Leo Roberts (Stuart Dunmire), David Hibbard (Mr. Jolly/Ensemble), Jodi Kimura (Janet Lundy/Ensemble), Alex Branton (Ensemble), Jonathan Hoover (Ensemble), Sheila Jones (Ensemble), Julia Kavanagh (Ensemble), Marquez Linder (Ensemble), Alex Ringler (Ensemble), Lannie Rubio (Ensemble), Ian Liberto (s/w Ensemble), Lauryn Withnell (Ensemble), Julia Yameen (Ensemble)

Notes:

Near perfect capture of the tour! Some washout is seen in wideshots due to primary robs doubtfire outfit being so Bright.

NFT DATE: June 6th, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB3Z7Y

Video is $20

Frozen - First US National Tour

November 29, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Caroline Bowman (Elsa), Lauren Nicole Chapman (Anna), Erin Choi (Young Elsa), Annie Piper Braverman (Young Anna), Jeremy Davis (Olaf), Dominic Dorset (Kristoff), Collin Baja (Sven), Preston Perez (Hans), Jack Brewer (Oaken), Evan Duff (Weselton), Tyler Jimenez (Pabbie), Renée Reid (Bulda), Kyle Lamar Mitchell (King Agnarr), Katie Mariko Murray (Queen Iduna), Natalie Wisdom (s/w Head Handmaiden), Jack Brewer (Bishop), Kate Bailey (Ensemble), Kristen Smith Davis (Ensemble), Jason Goldston (Ensemble), Natalie Goodin (Ensemble), Zach Hess (Ensemble), Adrianna Rose Lyons (Ensemble), Alexander Mendoza (Ensemble), Nick Silverio (Ensemble), Daniel Switzer (Ensemble), Peli Naomi Woods (Ensemble), Michael Allan Haggerty (s/w Ensemble), Jessie Peltier (s/w Ensemble)

Notes:

Absolutely gorgeous video of this tour! Lots of wideshots and close ups.

NFT DATE: June 6th, 2024

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjB5mqB

Video is $20

Videos can be purchased through me at mediumobservationtrading@gmail.com

[depressedraisin]

fun fact i discovered today that punched me in the face: brook linder of body paint mv fame was also the director of the loaded mv

[musicandotherstuff]

Frank Mobilio on the making of the Arctic Monkeys video "Body Paint"

[chrancecriber]

1.FM - Chillout Lounge Radio (January 26, 2023)

23:57 Aurosonic, Denis Karpinskiy & Kate Louise Smith - They Wait For Us (Chill Out Mix) 23:52 Moorcheeba - Moog Island 23:46 Alex Cortiz - Deja Vu 23:41 Gelka Feat. Phoenix Pearle - Million Nights 23:35 Naoki Kenji - Endless 23:31 Faith Hill - Love Ain't Like That 23:27 Thomas Lemmer - Savannah 23:22 Gold Lounge - Only A Dream 23:14 Kosta Rodriguez - Blue Grass 23:07 Deep-dive-corp. - The Island 23:00 Hirudo - Spy From Cairo (Classic Instrumental Mix) 22:55 Bright And Beautiful - Night Rains (Sound Of Ibiza Mix) 22:49 Va - Red Muladhara 22:43 Lullaby Lounge - Chill Del La Mer (Blank Cafe Relax Mix) 22:38 Moroccan Blonde - Mirage 22:33 Bedroom Surfer - Make It Happen - Meet Her At Costa Del Sol Mix 22:26 James Bright - Set Me Free 22:20 Jjos - Falling 22:15 San Martino - Es Cavalett (Piano Dream Mix) 22:10 Shakrag - From Singapore To Ibiza (Tribute To Cafe Del Mar Mix) 22:04 Pilgrims Of The Wind - Nothing Can Pull Us Apart 21:59 Monique Bon - La Musique 21:53 Lenny Mac Dowell - Zanzibar Feeling 21:47 Remote - Postcard 21:43 Mystique - Essences (Rico Van Basten Chill Mix) 21:38 07 - Paradise Circus 21:33 L'art Mystique - Le Jardin Secret 21:29 3 Liquid Hz - Metropolitan 21:22 Fenomenon - Pacific Memories 21:19 Moon Tribe - Moon Tribe 21:12 Alex Cortiz - Ibiza Trumpet Thing 21:07 Brooke - 1 Want To Know What Love Is (Balearic Hypno Dub) 21:03 Mirrored - Stand Still 20:57 Jjos - One More Night 20:50 Universe Music - Guitar Beach Lounge 20:45 Fidelity - You Don't Know 20:39 Atb - Remember That Day 20:35 Ziller - Pearl & Dean 20:31 The River Gods - Acadia House 20:26 Sunset People - Summer Madness (White Sand Cut) 20:21 Vargo - The Moment 20:15 Good Chillaz - No Motion (Jazz Relax Mix) 20:10 Washed Out - Face Up 20:05 Riccardo Eberspacher - I Feel Love 20:00 Sine - Flying (Original Mix) 19:56 Collective Sound Members - Journey To A Dream (Original) 19:52 Jose Ramos - Alone Again 19:46 Freemasons - Love On My Mind 19:40 New Beginning - Another Day 19:34 Steen Thottrup - El Alba 19:29 Sofa Sweeper - The Sad Side Of The Street (Mellow Guitar Mix) 19:28 Costes - St��phane Pompougnac - Green Tree 19:24 Jeff Woodal - Your Love (The Dark) 19:19 Listening Deluxe - Guitar Dreams (Short Aqua) 19:13 Citrus Jam - Pacific Snow 19:09 Jjos - Know Me 19:05 The Angelica Project - Another Skin 19:00 Coronado (Pianofly Mix) - Bay Area 18:54 Schwarz & Funk - The Dawn 18:49 Sunsea - Light The Fire 18:45 For - For Want Of Her 18:39 Puff Dragon - Lava 18:33 Pusteblume - Cold As Ice (Beautiful Chillout Mix) 18:29 A$ap Rocky - L$d 18:24 Vio Beach - Piano Chillout (Ambient Dream Mix) 18:19 Orange Music - Islandlover (Monotonic Trip Mix) 18:14 Noise Boyz - Honeytrap (Keys & Trumpet Mix) 18:08 Ypey - Love In Spain 18:04 Vibrasphere - Tierra Azul (Omnimotion Feat. Krister Linder Remix) 17:57 Fresh Moods - The Touch (Enchant Mix) 17:53 Jeff Woodal - Silver Birch 17:48 Vanilla - Dreamcatcher 17:45 Gelka Feat. Phoenix Pearle - Flying On Clouds 17:39 Gary B - Set Me Free 17:34 Dab - Pure Joy 17:29 Alex Cortiz - Phusion 17:23 Soft Wave - Plenitude Part 2 17:17 Schwarz & Funk - Night Over Bangkok 17:12 Mastermind - Empty Road 17:07 Green Lemon Feat Magica Fe - 11 O Clock (Pure Beach Cut) 17:00 Paco Fernבndez - Al Lado Del Mar 16:52 Tommy Awards - Hotel Odemark 16:42 Chilloutlounge - Track 2 16:36 Nautic - Freedom Of The Floor (Open Space Remix) 16:29 Roger Sanchez - Lost (Ibizarees The Unforgotten Mix) 16:22 Pacator - Tränen (Marcielo Ambient Mix Instrumental) 16:18 Dr. Meaker - Need Love 16:10 Groove Armada - Inside My Mind 16:06 The Avener & Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (The Avener Rework) 16:01 Manoa - Walk This Way 15:58 Synthetic Substance - Eternity 15:54 Bryan El - Ascension 15:48 Nujazzy - On A Sunday Morning (Facebook Affair Mix) 15:43 Miraflores - Waves Of Love 15:38 Rae & Christian - Still Here 15:31 Phil Mison - Lula 15:27 Mastermind - Wanna Give You Shelter 15:23 Cold Blue - Underwater Love 15:19 P.m F.m - Chinchilla 15:11 Oxen Butcher Feat. Lisa Eaton - Love & Happiness (Original Mix) 15:07 Afterlife - Espalmador 15:02 Afterlife & Kid Stone - Sleazebag 14:55 Noise Boyz - Daydreams Of The Sparrow 14:50 Amethystium - Isabliss - Strangely Beautiful 14:44 Banderas - This Is Your Life (Easy Life Mix) 14:37 Dab - Have A Smoke 14:31 Bright And Beautiful - Night Rains - Sound Of Ibiza Mix 14:26 Nimino - The Back Of Your Hands (Ft. Ashe) 14:22 Sued - Feel Me 14:13 Joey Fehrenbach - Grandfather 14:09 Pete Tong & Chris Cox - Ku Da Ta 14:03 Kitty The Bill - Cabriolet Tour 14:00 Morcheeba - Under The Ice 13:55 The Weeknd - Earned It 13:50 Beach Armada - Ocean Eyes (Oriental Chill Groove Cafe Mix) 13:45 The Fray - How To Save A Life 13:41 Lemon Sol - Beautiful Morning (Piano Cafe Chillout To Ibiza Del Mar) 13:38 Ben Leela - Dreaming A Dream 13:32 Peter Pearson - Smooth Talking (Moonrise) 13:28 Karen Souza - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 13:24 Triangle Sun - Beautiful 13:19 Alessandro Boschi - Sentosa 13:14 Chilling Crew - Frozen Time 13:08 Liquid Kings - Hang Up, Feel Free (Lounge Mix) 13:02 Sweet Velvet - La Realidad (Feat Debora Vilchez) (Ibiza Del Mar Cafe Lounge Vocal Mix) 12:57 Ra-qi Gong - Rainy Days In Shanghai (Buddha Cafe Del Mar Bar Mix) 12:54 Gabriel Le Mar - Seaside (Original Vrsion) 12:48 Timewarp Inc - Epic Tones Feat Rxn (Sundayman 12:43 Fragile State - Every Day A Story 12:37 Ohm-g & Bruno - One 12:32 Blank & Jones Feat. Cathy Battistessa - Miracle Man (Beached Mix) 12:26 The Sura Quintet - Relax In Sura 12:20 Euphonic Traveller - Cafe Champs Elysees 12:15 Floatation Feat. Pierre - Beautiful (Dub) 12:09 Lounge Aura - Something (Geronimo Chillout Mix) 12:02 Frank Borell - Wake Up In Paradise 11:58 Va - For Want Of Her 11:53 Mark Gorbulew's Manhattan Groove - Dreamsville 11:47 Chilloutlounge - Allstars 11:42 Luxury Traveller - Eagle Will Rise Again 11:36 Air - La Femme D'argent 11:29 Balearic Lounge Boyz - Leaving Home (Feat. Guitaragi) 11:24 Jjos - Foolish Game (Feat. Deary's) (Evolution Vocal Mix) 11:17 Chicane - Saltwater (The Thrillseekers Remix) 11:13 Verbal Kint Feat. Judie Jay - Break My Dreams (Original Live Mix) 11:08 Exit Mars - Gliding (Comfort Version) 11:02 Green Lemon Feat. Bernd Langer - Rauchy Stranger 10:55 Lux - So La Ra Dsa 10:50 Dj Pippi - A Touch 10:43 Muki - Track 4 10:39 Andras & Oscar - (I Know) What You Want 10:33 Caya Levantado - Caribbean Daydreaming ( Jazzy Del Mar Cafe Lounge Mix0 10:27 Ohm-g - Relax 2 The Max 10:23 Jjos - Breathe 10:18 Chris Coco Mts Afterlief - Home 10:13 Roberto Sol - Miles Beyond 10:08 Cesar Martinez Ensemble - Contigo Para Siempre 10:03 Guss - Milesing 09:56 Fluff - Silent Life 09:49 Vibrasphere - Spring Flood 09:44 T Mo - La Ritournelle 09:39 Solid Gold - Save A Prayer (Nick Tatler & Phil Blohm Instrumental) 09:34 Atjazz - Storm 09:28 Peter Linski Experience - Everything Flows 09:21 Laid Back - Sunshine Reggae (Peter Visti's & Stella Polaris Remix) 09:15 Silent Poets - Moment Scale 09:09 Manoa - Jumaira Drive 09:04 Sunsea - Light The Fire (Chillout Mix) 09:01 Dragon Lounge - Saigon Sundown (Asia Cut) 08:56 Jazz L'amour - Summer Dreams - See The Light Mix 08:48 Ibiza - Ibiza Blues Swing 08:43 Maricopa - Sun Scope 08:37 Joey Fehrenbach - Untouchable (Feat. Vi Flaten) 08:33 Mercer - Scandal 08:27 Esteban Garcia Vs. Subworks - Runnin (Jazzy Dub Mix) 08:22 Jazzy Pecada - Slow Down 08:15 Machomovers - Smooth Operator 08:07 Deep-dive-corp. - Relaxer 08:01 Simon Bareilles - The Sound Of Silence (Feat. Sara Keys) 07:55 Noel - Hold Me (Relax Lounge Cafe Chillout Mix) 07:49 Lux - Head Centre 07:44 Un Homme Et Une Femme - Une Rose Pour Emily (Cafe Hotel French Del Mar Mix) 07:37 Coastline - Adriatic Sea (Lounge Cafe Chillout Del Mar Mix) 07:33 Alex Cortiz - Smooth 07:28 Heso - Never Ending Time 07:23 Avalona - Empty Streets 07:20 William Orbit - Love My Way 07:15 Sam Swift - Wonderful World 07:10 Triangle Sun - Beautiful 07:04 Cats Love Dogs - Sunpearls (Paradise Lounge) 06:56 Detson Engeneering - Wonderland 06:50 Tosca - Mango Di Bango 06:43 Language Lab - Burning Disaster (Groove Armada Bedtime Story Mix) 06:37 Alpha X - Nocturnal Trip 06:31 Mamani - Glowing Desert (Aloe Trumpet Mix) 06:27 Limelight - Oxygene 4 06:23 Jjos - Don't You Want Me (Chilled Mix) 06:16 Ficci - Edge Of The Night 06:12 Pathetique - Dis Moi - Instrumental Cafe Costes Del Mar Sunset Hotel Chillout Mix 06:07 Out Of Sight - Comfort (Afterlife Mix) 06:02 Melibea - Fusion 05:56 Blue Chakra - Free From You (Half Tempo Long Chill Mix) 05:51 Sleepingroom Armada - Hope - Easy Erotic Groove Lounge Mix 05:45 Koolsax - Evasion 05:40 Boozoo Bajou Feat. Wayne Martin - Every Hour 05:34 Kiss Audio - The Voice Of Freedom (Spiritual Version) 05:30 Pines - Tell Me (Feat. Water Park) 05:25 Mandrave & Miyagi - Asian Lights 05:22 Jjos - Back To Me 05:17 Ling Ludd - Waterfront Dub 05:12 Coastline - Adriatic Sea (Dj Lounge Del Mar Vs. Milews Ambience Mix) 05:05 Rue Du Soleil - Essential Feelings 05:00 Ringo Orenji - Mikan 04:51 Mysticage - The Lips Of The Sun (Original) 04:46 York - Bye Bye Baby (Chill Out Mix) 04:41 Martin Bro - To Lose Part 04:38 Nouvelle Vague - Love Will Tear Us Apart 04:33 Ac - Meditarrean Sundance 04:28 The Essence - Serpentine 04:23 Noel - Chalito (Ibiza Chillhouse Lounge Mix) 04:17 James Bright - Be 04:12 Elmara - Training 04:07 Arrojas - Didascalias 03:58 Toka Kakabadze - Urban 03:53 Moon De Lounge - La Mer Se Calme ( Mounier Oriental Sunset Dub Mix) 03:47 Vargo - Get Back To Serenity 03:41 Rollercone - Daydreaming 03:35 Blue Six - Love Yourself 03:32 Emapea - Laka 03:25 Matenda - Orphean Layback Remix 03:17 Chicane - Low Sun 03:12 Peter Pearson - With All My Love (Bliss) 03:08 Alex Cortiz - Glamourgirl 03:05 Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me 02:59 Bedroom Surfer - Make It Happen ( Meet Her At Costa Del Sol Mix) 02:54 Flamingo - My Friend (Mercer & Gissal Chilled Version) 02:47 4tunes - In The Middle 02:42 The Sura Quintet - Lampedusa (Sunset Session) 02:36 Joey Fehrenbach - Particles 02:30 Gary B - Set Me Free 02:25 Scott Simmons - Children (Mediterr-asian Chill Mix) 02:19 Citrus Jam - Nice Holiday 02:15 Marc C. Griso - Sex, The First Time 02:10 Pensees - She 02:03 Rue Du Soleil - Troya 01:57 Green Lemon Feat Magica Fe - 11 O Clock (Pure Beach Cut) 01:51 Sven Andersson Iii - Journey To Your Soul (Cosmic Cycle Buddha Lounge Bar Mix) 01:47 Jupiter Jack - Blank Space 01:42 Ku You - 40 Degrees 01:37 Flume Feat. Andrew Wyatt - Some Minds 01:31 Chilloutlounge - Breather 2000 (Arithunda Mix) 01:25 Jerome Isma-ae - Underwater Love 01:20 Purplastic - Nathalia (Ambient Mix) 01:14 Blank & Jones With Jason Caesar - Hideaway 01:08 Coyoteeve Feat Saro - Tribastone 01:04 Saigenji - No Meio Da Chuva 00:59 Jjos - Lonely (Feat. María La Caria) Manu López-saxo (Lounge Mix) 00:54 Gelka Feat. Phoenix Pearle - Being You 00:48 Aural Float - Still Here 00:43 Autopilot - Seen It All 00:36 Rediophonic - Desert Wind 00:30 4tunes - Where Are You Now (Feat Hed) (Kandi Hotel Enigma Mix) 00:25 Mahoroba - Faire On Tour (Jazzmatic Lounge Mix) 00:18 Bent - Swollen (Napoleon Remix) 00:14 Ibizarre - Smooth Temptation 00:10 Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line 00:05 Vanegas - Te Voy A Querer 00:00 Peter Pearson - It's In The Stars (Original Mix)

[theageoftheunderstatement]

Brook Linder’s Interview about the making of the MV of Body Paint

Via Directors’ Library, October 2022

Brook, my first question has to be about the particular images you have created for this video and their connection.

This video was a collaboration between myself, Ben Chappell, Alex Turner, and the band, but I came at it from a very specific viewpoint:

Body Paint is very much about visualizing the process of filmmaking and specifically the creation of symbolic imagery (and where that process can fall apart). There is a code to be deciphered and everything has a specific meaning, but mostly it’s the code-making itself that’s on display.

I have a background in editorial and I’m interested in edit patterns and delivering pieces of visual information that can take on different meanings depending on context (and that context itself can change over the course of a piece). Things widen out, contract, and widen out again.

Considering the nature of the piece, I’m intrigued to ask what relationship this video, or elements from it, have with your previous work.

I worked for the better part of a decade as an editor on all kinds of pieces (documentaries, narrative films, music videos, commercials), so I spent a lot of time thinking about the process and power of editing. Meaning can be imbued in many ways, and audiences get smarter and smarter all the time. I think the modern viewer is very sophisticated and can follow an idea with only a sliver of data.

Earlier this year I made a video for ambient artist Rich Ruth of Third Man Records called ‘Older But Not Less Confused’. This was an experiment, creating a mosaic from cars on a highway interchange and the people inside those cars. The images have little power on their own but set next to each other against the backdrop of a hundred little vehicles a larger, stranger picture begins to form.

After that, I completed a narrative/documentary hybrid on the process of editing called ‘Time Code’. The film is about an editor struggling to manufacture a narrative from scraps of footage for an elusive pop star. Throughout the piece, as the editor fails to construct a film, they begin to re-edit the piece in real-time and we watch the scramble to find meaning. I badly, badly wanted to submit this to Directors Library but I lost my nerve. It’s a very personal film, and from the conversations I’ve had with other editors that reached out after viewing it, I think it’s personal for them too. Shared editorial trauma, maybe.

Visually, the origins of ‘Body Paint’ go back to 2014, when the director of photography Frank Mobilio and I made another music video, ‘True’, for a band called Operators. We were chasing the tone of the paranoid Alan Pakula/Gordon Willis collaborations (The Parallax View, All the President’s Men, and Klute). I think we achieved that look but the real breakthrough came in the edit, where I found the more I stripped the context away the more powerful the individual shots became.

For my other collaborators, especially Ben Chappell and Alex Turner, their film knowledge and intention are very deep, and very extensive. They came with a specific tone and creative and our worlds blended pretty effortlessly. We had a great time sending links back and forth.

Can you tell us what shooting on film means to you, and perhaps some of the working methods you have or favorable results you aim to achieve over working digitally?

Ben and Alex are big advocates of film and using the old ways. The work they’ve been doing for Arctic Monkeys is exclusively on film, and they’ve built a visual world over years working together. That is obviously a very intimidating circle to be invited into. Frank and I are not so intense about film – we’ll shoot on almost anything – but we started to lean into it conceptually, building the idea and myth of film into the piece. Beyond anyone’s individual preference, shooting on film became absolutely necessary because it was inextricable from the concept of the piece itself.

Ektachrome was very important to Ben and Alex, and we took on that challenge somewhat begrudgingly as shooting it inside is no easy deal, but it really has a mythic quality to it. I was dead wrong, basically. It looks like the thing we’ve been chasing forever. They were right.

What are you reading at the moment?

I am fighting my way through Don DeLillo’s ‘Underworld’, and it’s totally the coolest thing I’ve ever experienced this side of Libra and at the same time so intimidating (it’s a brick). I’m halfway through it. Though he hasn’t made a film DeLillo is absolutely a filmmaker, no doubt. He knows too much.

All the DeLillo’s I’ve read (just a handful) deal with film and moving images in some way, but ‘Underworld’ has this really choice passage about a murder caught on tape:

And there is something about videotape, isn’t there, and this particular kind of serial crime? This is a crime designed for random taping and immediate playing. You sit there and wonder if this kind of crime became more possible when the means of taping an event and playing it immediately, without a neutral interval, a balancing space and time, became widely available. Taping-and-playing intensifies and compresses the event. It dangles a need to do it again. You sit there thinking that the serial murder has found its medium, or vice versa – an act of shadow technology, of compressed time and repeated images, stark and glary and unremarkable.

Maybe the victim’s a chump, a sort of silent-movie dupe, classically unlucky. He had it coming in a sense, for letting himself be caught on camera. Because once the tape starts rolling it can only end one way. This is what the context requires.

The more you watch the tape, the deader and colder and more relentless it becomes. The tape sucks the air right out of your chest but you watch it every time.

[alexstorm]

Thoughts on the bew music video ? I thought this one looked way more professional but I could be wrong, what do you think?

I just checked, it's another white male director but he can't be older than Alex. Nabil really was the exception, eh? The connection came probably through Miles since he did videos with him. But also fucking Nine Inch Nails!

If anyone's interested:

[littlefalls]

Csodás ez a videó!!! A rendező Brook Linder. Feljegyzem, remélhetőleg hallunk még felőle.

body paint - arctic monkeys (2022)

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Fix Me by Beck

Directed by Brook Linder

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Less Than by Nine Inch Nails from the Add Violence EP - Video by Brook Linder

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“Find and capture an astonished man. Hold him ‘till he knows he is forgiven.”

Astonished Man, 2016 Dir. Brook Linder