#alexander hemming

[iilluussoorr]

Portishead - Sour Times (1994, dir. Alexander Hemming)

[mjuvies]

alexander hemming, {1995} portishead: glory box

[symptom3000]

Portishead "Sour Times" (1994)

director: Alexander Hemming

[rrrauschen]

alexander hemming, {1995} portishead: glory box

[rrrauschen]

alexander hemming, {1995} portishead: glory box

[skylightbooks]

Stockist Showcase: Skylight Books BY ALEXANDRIA LAI

Illustration by Skylight Books staff, Alex Hemming

[symptom3000]

Portishead - "Glory Box" (1994) director: Alexander Hemming sampled: Isaac Hayes "Ike's Rap 2" (1971)

[greggprickett]

So I've been listening to Portishead a lot lately, particularly their last album, Third.

I was doing a little reading on them, and I guess before they made their first album, Dummy, they teamed up with Alexander Hemming to make this short film, To Kill A Dead Man. The film stars the members of the band, and features a soundtrack made by them. Pretty cool stuff. Evidently they're big fans of 1960s spy movies, wanted to make one, and underestimated how difficult it was to do film. Here's a quote from Geoff Barrow of Portishead about the film: 

"When I look at To Kill a Dead Man, I can't stand it. I think it was a dreadful piece of film. Basically, it was done so that we could write some film music. Not to put down anyone involved with the film, but we should have done it with pure images, rather than having us in it. It was misunderstood, what we wanted to get out of it. It created an image, and the whole idea was for it not to."

The soundtrack, as well as images from the film, appear on their Dummy album. Need to pick that one up.