Street Spirit (fade out)
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Filmed in a desert outside of Los Angeles, California |
 
 
 
 
 
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A favorite for many fans, this
video features the band surrounded by a bunch of caravans somewhere east of LA in
a desert environment. It was at this point that Radiohead really started to think
carefully and clearly about their videos. For this one Thom wanted a dream-like atmosphere
to couple the song, in this case made by various clever slow motion camera effects.
From an interview: Directed by Jonathan Glazer, this again was shot in the desert
outside Los Angeles, showing Thom singing with his eyes closed while random images
of crickets, barking dogs etc. flickered by in slow motion. The rest of the band jumped
off chairs and other objects, also in slow motion. "Thom wanted it to be like a dream,"
explained the film-maker, "and liked the idea of nobody getting anywhere," while Thom
observed, "We wanted to make something really elegant and beautiful. I wanted something
that would create space in the viewer's imagination to complement the stream of consciousness
of the song."
Review by Karen Hands:
This is an extremely strange video. Well, really it's normal. For Radiohead anyway.
Filmed all in black and white and using a special photosonics ultra-slow motion science
camera which can track a bullet from a gun, makes it very interesting. Things go at
different speeds on the screen, which is a bit disconcerting to the eye and the brain.
One example is Thom bending over waving a stick above the ground, another Thom jumping
over it in slow motion. This is a great video for all Thom appreciators. During the
last "fade out" section, Thom does this 'wind-tunnel' effect. The rest of the band
are sitting in the background, and have an expression on their faces which reads "What
is he doing? Has he gone mad?" With many great moments, this is one of the best videos
Radiohead, or anybody else, has ever had. It was filmed in the desert outside LA,
and directed by Jonathan Glazer. When coming up for the idea for the video Thom said:
"In this video we wanted to make something really elegant and beautiful. The song
came out of a stream of consciousness and Jonathan Glazer and I wanted something that
would create space in the viewer's imagination to complete this. Pop videos so often
kill a song stone dead, but when Jonathan suggested using the photosonics ultra-slow
motion science camera coupled with reference to the surrealist photographers of the
early century, we knew we had something." |
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