When I started humming 'All Is Full Of Love' this morning, I realised how long it'd been since I'd watched Chris Cunningham's Directors Label DVD. I think it might have been the first DVD I ever bought, not really being into movies at the time (and now I'm surrounded by DVD's and none of them are near as good). I remember watching it for the first time, which was one of those experiences which blows your mind, excites you beyond belief and also makes you feel horribly inadequate all at the same time.
As much as I love the rest of his videos, the Bjork one is still my favourite. Probably because they manage to make assembly-line imagery sensual, which can't have been easy bearing in mind that this kind of imagery is usually used in a dystopian way to show how cold and mechanical the world is becoming- 'the robots are taking over', etc. The machine arms move really slowly and sensually. There's a beautiful use of flickering strip-lighting and the weird dripping liquid, and of course Bjork robots are designed with the express purpose of wearing the others face off. It's incredible how now, almost ten years after it was made, when technology has made it so much easier to do this kind of thing, it'd still be incredibly difficult to pull something like this off. The amount of design, storyboarding and the mountain of technical problems it'd bring with it....
With such a long wait as there is between Chris Cunningham projects, I actually spent time this morning looking for hidden parts or easter eggs in the DVD menu where there might be some extra material nobodies ever noticed before, but I couldn't find anything (surprisingly enough). When I watched the "Making Of All Is Full Of Love" documentary part, there was a flicker on the screen for a split-second and I hit rewind again and again, trying to pause in the right place and see what it was- expecting some Fight Club style hidden message.
It says: "This clip shows the transition through to the final head composite. The position of the eyes has been altered and the whole head slightly colour graded to match the body. Bjork's eues and mouth have had most of the colour taken out of them to match the robot".
And despite how mundane that all actually is, I still came away grinning like the Pope with the third secret of Fatima.
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"Nobody knows that they saw it, but they did... A nice, big cock!"
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