>There was a time when music videos really meant something, when music videos were going to change the world and usher in a bright new world, when MTV was a shining beacon on the great hill of history…
…anyway, here’s the original Fish Head video in its entirety:
>So we watched A Day at the Races (1937) the other night. Lily liked it. There was one image that caught my attention because it is just so weird.
This shot comes during the big song and dance number at the Blue Venetian Waters (some kind of cabaret/night club). The singers are on a boat and the boat moves slowly toward the camera until the singers exit the bottom of the frame. The camera does not follow the singers but stays on the fountain. I don’t know why they chose to do this, but it certainly created a briefly funny visual moment. I don’t think the humor was intentional even though the film is a comedy. Anyway, I laughed.
Michel Gondry, filmmaker and music video director, known for such films as The Science of Sleep (2006) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), recently made a video in which he deftly solves a Rubik’s Cube with his feet and posted it to YouTube. See Video 1:
Video 1
I really enjoy seeing filmmakers being a little weird of goofy in their “spare” time. I am not surprised the person who directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind would be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube with his feet.
And then someone noticed… (that someone being Scott Macaulay at Filmmaker http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/ magazine) and created a video response to Gondry’s video, and posted it on YouTube. See Video 2:
Video 2
I have to say that I love what Gondry has done even more. This is just pure fun. It’s great to see a feature filmmaker having fun. It also humorously highlights that fact that all filmmaking is a kind of illusion in one way or another.