Right. Kanye West co-directed this music video with Spike Jonze. Uh huh. Just because you come up with the idea doesn’t mean that you direct it Kanye. I come up with ideas all the time, and yet I still don’t see my name on MTV or Vh1. Stop being such an asshole about your videos, Squid Brains!
However, here at iloveslowmotion.com, we do not discriminate visually. Good slow motion is good slow motion. Especially when there’s a really hot chick beating the shit out of Kanye West with a blunt instrument. Not only is this an impressive use of the best camera speed in the world, it’s also one take long (Spike or Kanye’s idea? Hm…).
I can only stand so much of this video, partly because it looks like a commercial, and partly because the commercial can’t decide just what the fuck it’s trying to sell. Using water and a high-speed camera, this car/shampoo/african aid presentation makes H2O look like a completely foreign object. Yeah, some of the effects are cheesy, but then again, who knew water drops could look like sequins? Beautiful and educational!
So German flick Summer Storm (or Sommersturm) was actually a bit too gay and campy for my taste, but that’s okay, because the best 10 minutes of the film are the opening credits. With two lithe, young, muscular male bodies exercising to Nada Surf’s Blonde on Blonde, you’ve got yourself an ocular orgy. Throw in a high speed camera and it’s pretty much a visual orgasm (and they haven’t even gotten to the over-the-top gay sex yet!) Sorry to spoil it for you, but here, I’ll make it all better with a link to the condensed, good-for-you chapter.
I’m not really sure what the fuck has happened here, but whatevs, it looks so, so sweet. Who knew that old people smiling at 60fps could be such a powerful ad campaign? Watch it, and you’ll never be able to paintball the same way again.
Words cannot describe how beautiful this video is. You know it’s well filmed when it makes the band members look 400% more attractive. Clearly, there must be an Adonis-lense on the camera they shot this on.
With slow and achingly gorgeous graphics, from falling water to smashing beams of light, this video could make anyone believe that wearing just ribbons constitutes a substantial outfit. Plus, at the end, they look like human anime characters. Few have tried, most have failed. But these guys pulled it off with high, high marks.
The OMODAKA movement seems to be the answer to my obsession with site specific music videos. Visuals that line up in perfect harmony with the beat to the song, speeding up and slowly down in order to accomodate the tempo…Now that’s my idea of a perfect film.
As the site states, OMODAKA “is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory.”
I can’t help but think of the equally gorgeous slow motion movements used in Chris Cunningham’s video for Portishead’s “Only You”. While OMODAKA claims to be innovate, a lot can be said of their roots in videos like his, also including Rubber Johnny.
Both music videos should be watched alone, in a dark room, with no distraction. Slow motion is great, but it’s even better underwater, or with a perfect score such as these in the background.
I just love how filthy gorgeous this video looks. Seeing whipped cream sprayed slowly into a thin model’s mouth feels so right and so wrong. Somewhere, I’d like think Chris Cunningham is smiling.
Ah, I continually watch this music video for the end, where the camera speeds up and Lykke Li’s hair slows down, down, down. She is definitely mesmerizing, and the song is equally haunting.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. What is Romain Duris doing, messing up this beautiful shot? I wish they didn’t show his cut-away. I may be straight, but the slow motion on this woman is so gorgeous that for her, I’d reconsider.
While I didn’t particularly like this film (Sean Biggerstaff’s acting, mostly), I must admit that the movie’s relationship to time is mouth-wateringly gorgeous. Here’s a clip that I think is a good sampler of all the time changes used.
