Steve Reich, Jeremy Hollister, Coldcut
Originally posted February 02, 2005. See above for further entries.
Note: Unfortunately, the video file discussed here was lost in a recent site update.
Tonight I came across my copy of Gasbook 9 - Insect and sat down to watch a few of the pieces on the DVD. This video by Jeremy Hollister has always been my favorite on the disc, if not one of my favorite motion graphic pieces in general. Watch the full video.
Stills from the excellent music video for Coldcut's remix of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" directed by Jeremy Hollister:
Click to view the video (29mb)
Hollister in an interview with Shift.jp:
Architecture always fascinates me and I think that modernist buildings such as those by Saarinen and Niemeyer (even though he seemed to a have certain level of disregard for how some of the buildings would work in practical use) are beautiful studies of form and contrast in space. I thought that it would be interesting to explore these ideas of form and space through the live action using different architectural icons, vast spaces and minimal action from the model/actress to enhance this. We used the white fields of color to anchor the visual theme, restricting the palette to white and blue. The goal was to create an abstract visual soundscape of repeating key themes with slight changes, mirroring the tonal variations in Reich's compositions.