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Watch This: Carousel
Filed under: Fandom », Home Entertainment », Trailers and Clips »
Earlier this week, fellow Cinematical scribe Scott Weinberg pointed me to a cool little video that I watched twice and then forgot. He reminded me again and the pattern was repeated -- or so I thought. Because that weird little piece of wild visual magic keeps popping up in my mind. I can't let it go. You can allow it to infect your brain by watching Carousel at Stink Digital (or down below). That's the same company that helped create the commercials in which 8 Mile and Die Hard were reimagined as 50s French classics.
So, going in, you know that Carousel is an advertisement, in this case for a technology product I can't possibly afford right now (a new model of television), though, again, it's not a hard sell. Of course, some of the most creative and jaw-dropping works are made as part of advertising campaigns. Just think back to Ridley Scott's startling 1984 ad for the Apple Macintosh: I don't remember anything about the Super Bowl game that surrounded the ad, but I definitely remember that woman tossing her hammer at Big Brother.
Directed by Adam Berg, Carousel inevitably brings to mind the amazing Bullet Time scenes in The Matrix, as applied to the opening title sequence of Watchmen, with a tip of the hat to The Dark Knight. The viewer is invited to take a "frozen moment" tour of a crime scene filled with guns, broken glass, and general carnage. I found it haunting and strangely beautiful.
Philips : Carousel from Sawacs on Vimeo.
(Thanks to @wlmager.)
Chloe Sevigny loves diamonds
Filed under: Shorts »
I'm sure Chloë Sevigny had a very good reason for
agreeing to star in Carousel, a advertising film for Ritz Fine Jewelery that runs over six minutes and
consists mostly of her lolling around hotels rooms in various costumes and wigs. A desperate love for Ritz products,
for example. Or a desire to stretch herself as an actress in a way that doesn't involve Vincent Gallo. Or, more likely, cold, hard cash. While a Bande à part reference is always welcome no matter how cheap and obvious it is, the short as a whole is just painfully boring - though I suppose it would be even more so were the face pouting in the middle of it a slightly less familiar one. But really, is anyone going to watch the movie and be seized by a need to buy diamonds from Ritz, thus repaying whatever it cost the company to get Sevigny to appear? I'm thinking no.
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