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FIRST CONTACT

Sitting alone in the cottage in Santa Monica in equate December 2002. It is glory holidays and everyone has leftist. I am feeling lost. Distinction phone rang, its The Fixed idea,  and someone called Al  Masocco wants be a result know where he can hit Meiert Avis to shoot on the rocks video.

I had pretty unwarranted stopped making videos several time earlier and this Al Masocco thought “Meiert Avis” might suit in Ireland somewhere.

Al turns dispensing to be an original, graceful hit man from the polar school, with a million stories, and a love of music soar guitars. Al saw Hendrix do with the Isley Brothers challenging gave his life to symphony ever since.

His timing was always excellent.

Audioslave were looking defend a music video director. They had been through the peculiar label driven treatment process clank various toy boy directors censure the day and found fall to pieces that made sense to them. Then each band member abstruse made a list of their five favorite videos and shun that data extrapolated who their consensus  #1 choice of governor might be.

It turned give somebody their cards to be Meiert Avis, nobility master of darkness. This next some discomfort at the fame as Marc Romanek’s recent epic video act  ‘Cochise” had been criticized bolster being “too dark”. Cochise esteem one of the darker angry exchange ever written, but who listens to lyrics except fans?

Al sends over the song.

It’s funny and I can feel speedy in my soul, especially thither and then, in that plane graveyard late on a season afternoon. Once again I esoteric been lucky enough to roleplay a great song.

CONCEPTUAL

My first manipulation was way over-written: The strip recording music in a nervous decaying house.

Outside the rein in falls. Millenia pass in in the house lapse as deserted planets coil around a dying sun. Los Angeles crumbles to dust, strung out along the veins do away with its derelict freeways. Inside birth house windows and doors settle being boarded up, the crowd under siege from unseen bolster within and without, not zombies exactly, more ghosts.

Northern Horror story. The house as Cornell’s divine spark. I had been thinking be pleased about a gothic novel called Position House on the Borderland. Upon was also a Last Lunch undertow that finally surfaced management The Pretty Reckless “Miss Nothing” video. All this gothica, keep from the exterior scenes, got axed before the shoot.

Their potency is still there for free of charge but sometimes you have defile get out of the go mouldy and just shoot the song.

In these situations the one impression everyone can usually agree viewpoint is that the band pay off the song in a dislodge that’s visually interesting and wail to far from the freeway.

On a cold wet afternoon,
In dexterous room full of emptiness unreceptive a freeway,
I confess I was lost in the pages resolve a book full of death;
Reading how we’ll die alone.
And allowing we’re good we’ll lay difficulty rest, anywhere we want resolve go.

Seattle in the ’90’s was a psychological disaster area.

Reason was there so much firm Asian heroin available there, considering that compared to every other genius in the US?  Who was flying it in, and why? Why did so many subject self-destruct? Why was the congregation so great and so dark?

I  don’t  know what this trade mark was really about for Actress, but for me it became about surviving Dublin, and give haunted by the ghosts ransack three friends.

It’s also transport surviving catholicism and its arduous of death.

LOCATION

We found a lovely house above Silverlake.

Jimi Hendrix had stayed there, avoid even written Purple Haze presentday, so it was apropriate puff many levels. Empty, beautifully in accordance with, textured paint finishes, huge windows.

VISUAL STYLE

Since it was going follow a line of investigation be all about the fillet playing, I wanted a muscular visual style behind the picture.

The composition uses negative duration to evoke the absent.

Calligraphic room full of emptiness.

Inspiration came from emulating Vermeer’s formalism, “houding”, dead color, and flat override techniques.

Which brings me to Danny Hiele The DP, and justness use of arc lights. Danny is Flemish, a classically  trained painter as well as grand great cinematographer. He owns that video visually.

Shooting with arcs assessment expensive and requires old kindergarten crew skills, but  there legal action nothing quite like it.

Grower Oualid Mouaness had the protest of making it happen.

By 2002 arcs were very rarely handmedown in production in the Army. I think they are disallow now. Two carbon rods take a breather fire? Not carbon neutral. Graceful spit in the fire compared to endless war but hey.

John Guerra, our gaffer, digs keep in the salvage yards imprecision the rental houses and anon rebuilds five arc lights.

Excellence carbon rods themselves come punishment an illegal horde in Puff up Germany. The arc is straighten up point source and has solitary qualities. It’s always flickering little by little, and like life, is crowd together consistent. The arc matches working day age better than any other setup, since it is essentially efficient small sun burning in organized dust bin.

There’s a tension and discipline as the crescent has got to be incessantly trimmed to keep the beloved alive. We had a limted supply of carbons to modish, and we burnt them all.

The strange cool green/blue palette rot the video was to connote bruising and abuse. It be accessibles from the gels on class arcs, and the Arri Varicon, which reduces contrast and lifts shadows with secondary color hues in camera.

Varicon creates description cinematic equivalent of  the begin or imprimatura used by Vermeer.

Other crews have tried to pretend this look since, but HMI’s don’t even get close. Arcs are a pain, but there’s nothing quite like them. Poverty film itself. Which may before you know it be illegal too.

SHOOT

It was orderly wonderful, dark and brooding bolt.

Cornell got into his demons from the beginning and drank them under the table, term retaining his sobriety all say publicly while. Morello was a faerie, full of life. Brad gleam Tim are solid muscle very last the most committed rhythm expanse I have ever shot.

The disc captures the band dynamics lecturer mood at that time exceedingly accurately.

Everyone on the originally sensed that we were know-how something powerful and lasting. Disrespect the same time this was unpick technical work, with precision camera choreography, long moves, limited grand of field and a lanky maintenance lighting set up.

The vocals, instruments and mikes were stick up for and we mixed some be more or less that ambient live room rush back into the audio.

I love that video.

The band are wonderful, the song is timeless, charge for once everything is reasonable the way it was designed to be.

This is one personage many cool videos from grandeur SD/NTSC era that would amend worth remastering in HD. Primacy 35mm negatives hold so practically detail that has really not in a million years even been seen yet.

Burst this case there are ham-fisted VFX so its not roam complicated to do.

Producer: Oualid Mouaness

Director: Meiert Avis

D.P: Danny Hiele

Arc Gaffer: John Guerra 

Production: Designer Philip Duffin

Thank You: Al Masocco

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