I MIGHT SHOUT (2017) - BEHIND THE SCENES
This was an experiment in seeing if I could be interested in something where where the camera didn’t move. The answer was: ...maybe not.
I think there’s a few too many ideas: the riff on Dutch Memento-Mori style still lives, the wall of water, the pomegranite, the ghosts, the bugs, the projected geometrical patterns. Too many ideas and a little too tropey. Moto Komplete was the video that followed this one and I tried to course correct, both in camera movement and simplicity.
Shooting was chaotic - we cleared all the computers and hard-drives out of the office where I occasionally worked and almost flooded it several times, coming back for two weekends of pick ups and inserts. I also built the water wall too small - so I never got the full tableau shot I wanted. The first round of bugs I bought all died of the cold by the time we started filming so I had to buy more and try again. There’s also some fairly unforgivable CGI in the middle of the video.
I’m still fond of the fairly elaborate opening animated title - it was laser cut out of 50 or so separate squares of balsa board, the wood was stained and rephotographed. I like the way the wood grain appears to swim.