video directors- Martin De Thurah

This director uses techniques which most would not, the use of wires gives some of his work a Japanese’s feel. He quotes that “I tend to make things complex in a simple way, because I think that complexity is beautiful. I find life quite complicated-there is never just one version” this shows as the video is sometimes confusing and it makes you watch it over to try to get the meaning of it.

The director studied painting then followed by animation which shows in some of his work such as ‘human’. This has a feel like some of the charectes could be animated, this is similar to Royksopp - What Else Is There?. This video has very animated and art feel to it. The backgrounds do not look real but still gives the video a realistic feel.
I liked his video ‘human by car park north’. This video is much different to any others I have seen, it follows a dance routine video structure but with parts of slow motion and a narrative of the two children, who appear to have fallen in love. This mixed conventions shows that music videos can be very unique and not stick to and blue print. In the video ‘best day’ he uses light very well, moving it from one side gives a moving shadow that gives the expression if long periods of time shortened down.

Looking at videos such as ‘Lise Westzynthius – Séance’ and ‘Human by carpark north’ both use lots of meat shots of the characters within the video. Similarly in both videos the people participating are not the band or singing the track, the human video uses children doing out of the ordinary things. These often make little sense first time watching them. This brings me back to the Séance video which just shows a persons veins making them follow up the persons arm.