#video drome

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Videodrome dir. David Kronenberg

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Flyer #2

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(via Videodrome: Of Cyberpunk and Body Horror | Neon Dystopia)

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Debbie Harry in Video Drome

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William Fowler: The islands are quite incredible and mysterious and, subsequent to your shooting of it, one turned up in the James Bond movie ‘Skyfall’. How did you find these places and did the discoveries lead to the film or vice versa?

Ben Rivers: I was looking for four islands that were significantly different from one another - so that the development of the human society was also related to the geography, climate, flora and fauna etc. It took me quite some time to decide upon the four and longer still to get to them. Lanzarote (Eleven) was the first – it is one of the driest places on Earth, so the strange volcanic landscape has not eroded away, resulting in huge planes of solidified lava streams. Dotted around the island are large sculptures, gardens and buildings designed by César Manrique, which also play a large part in creating the sci-fi atmosphere of the film. Tuvalu (Hiva – The Society Islands) was somewhere I had wanted to go since I read about it as a child, and when researching this film I read that it was in severe danger of being swallowed up by the rising Pacific. The fact that I had been thinking about this sad danger made it the right choice for a location. When I got there I found there was another depressing aspect of humans highlighted on the islands, which was plastics. Not so long ago Tuvalu started getting imported goods with plastic packaging from Fiji and other parts of the globe – but the landmass is so tiny, and hundreds of miles from anywhere, that the plastic heaps have built up to become a new colourful and toxic landscape – this then became entwined in the account. The third island, Gunkanjima (Kanzennashima) I’d seen on the really great architectural blog http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/. I've always liked roaming around abandoned buildings, some of which have ended up in films, and Gunkanjima is something like the ultimate in abandoned spaces – a city for 5000 people on an island. For this space I wanted there to be an account within the account, from an even more unreliable narrator – so this island became home to one Tadashi Harai, a self-proclaimed madman. I haven’t seen Skyfall yet but I have a team of lawyers working on this case! For the last island I was going to go to Svalbard, an icy wonder halfway between the North of Norway and the North Pole. Just before I booked the flight I realised this was too easy, maybe not physically but conceptually – I wanted the camera to get closer to people in this last part, to get closer to the ethnographic I mentioned before. Somerset, my home, then became the fictional island – cut off and drifted apart from the rest of Britain somewhere in the very distant future. Various Somerset locations were then peopled with ‘Clades’, covered in mud and paint, wearing strange garb and holding remnants of objects whose original use has been forgotten and have transformed to talismans or weaponry. A place of permanent renewal.

http://www.vdrome.org/rivers.html

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