Hasta La Ideas

Shot through Colonel Blimp, director Carl Burgess‘ new promo for Kap Bambino track, Obsess, features actors demonstrating (some better than others) their ‘ability’ to express a range of emotions. It’s weird, but kinda wonderful so here it is…

Kap Bambino – Obsess from More Soon on Vimeo.

This isn’t the first time Burgess has created a strangely compelling music video of footage of not-particularly-impressive actors doing their thing to camera. Regular readers may recall we flagged up his video for Ratatat track Drugs in August last year. That video brilliantly utilised stock video footage from Getty Images to make the entire film which Burgess edited himself. Alongside the painful footage of ‘actors’ experiencing various emotional states in that particular video, some post production trickery adds an extra level of weirdness. Check out the Drugs video here.

Obsess credits
Director: Carl Burgess
Producer: Jacob Swan Hyam
Production company: Colonel Blimp
Director of photography: Catherine Derry & Sam Goldie
Second DoP: Tamin
Art direction: Anna Rhodes
Editor: Jesse Kanda

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