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1. lost in a moment
3 years ago
one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean.
We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.
I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute.
Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this.
A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together.
The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.
There's something beautiful in not understanding a language.. it becomes abstract, musical.
Opera is so much better when you can't understand the words!
What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not too lingering.
dennis
The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
myspace.com/shriftspace
more trivia: film was originally taken in 1998... married with the music much later.
Thanks for all the positive comments.. will upload a better quality version soon.
We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.
I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute.
Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this.
A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together.
The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.
There's something beautiful in not understanding a language.. it becomes abstract, musical.
Opera is so much better when you can't understand the words!
What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not too lingering.
dennis
The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
myspace.com/shriftspace
more trivia: film was originally taken in 1998... married with the music much later.
Thanks for all the positive comments.. will upload a better quality version soon.
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but i love it.
i remember a video with the exact same concept (camera travelling on japanese food conveyor, being almost dream-like) being featured on that other video website about a year or so ago.
that said, this video was even more engaging thanks to some perfect music selection.
yeah!
Anyways, keep up the good work.
blog.japundit.com/archives/2007/05/18/6009/
what`s that song?
dreaming beautifiull music !
Thanks a lot !
thanks also for the 'deinterlace' comments.. I'm running it through a filter as I type! hope it helps.
Original footage was shot in 1998 on a pretty basic mini dv camera.
The song is called 'lost in a moment' the artist 'shrift'
I didn't know that was the issue.. thought it was a compression thing.
great video THANKS !
did you use a cellphone camera to film this? im surprised they let you put your equip on the conveyor belt the japs are notorious for sanitation.
I'd love to get back to Tokyo soon!
Your video is brilliant; however, the reason I know it must be so is because of my wife's response to the video. You see, I frequently bring my wife over to my computer professing something to the effect of... "you have to see this video"! The problem is that 90% of the time she will end up drifting "away" because the video does not keep her attention. However, for your video she not only sat through the entire video (major accomplishment for me, I mean you!) but she actually really liked it and stayed around for a minute or two to talk about its virtues.
You must be good...
;-)
firstly, how you managed to find a way to get so close into everyone's personal space at such a slow pace, magic
secondly, i've just spent six months in hong kong and it really got a sense for the place, using a record player would have been wrong, this was so much better.
finally, in terms of the execution itself, the mechanical movement of the conveyer belt was beautiful. For years i have been quietly fascinated by such motions that happen all around us, every time the camera moved it was at the same pace and landed on yet another perfect flat shot, the inevitable nature of each moment was just fantastic to enjoy; knowing what was coming made it all the more fun to take in.
Great job. Where are you guys from? And what took you to Tokyo? I'm a student in England and I'd love to know more of what you got up to.
Great work.
R
We're both from England...
Stef's brother was working out in Tokyo for a year so we went out visiting and catching up with some old Japanese friends.
We were on a bit of a mission to do some filming too.
I was working on music project back in the uk and wanted to collect some audio-visual atmospheres to inspire that.
On the first night we met an energetic German photographer whose favourite thing was driving at high speed across Tokyo listening to loud music (stuff like Cake-Going the Distance).. That was a great introduction to the city.. the endless circulation.
It really was a wonderful trip.. so many experiences.. I really loved the sounds coming out of the billboards in Tokyo.. there was a kind of melancholy in the air. Even more so when it was raining and everyone produced an umbrella to create a collective shelter from the rain.
To be continued!
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Simple and simply wonderful.
I am also craving sushi now.
Althouth it is very nice.
keep it going on !!
Amazing music too.
The filming was such a spur of the moment thing that we hadn't really figured out what to do past the first loop of the carousel.
In the end the switchover was key..
it ruptures the smoothness and makes it even more intimate methinks.
There are 2 loops shown in this film but the footage includes 2 more with the camera facing both forward and back along the conveyor itself (it really is like a road movie then!)
What kind of camera did you use in the film video?
thanks
something like this
Panasonic PVDV910 MiniDV (?)
it was 1998(9?)
Perhaps, it´s the best video I have ever seen.
Watching it makes me feel completely relaxed.
Everythings in contrast :
the hectic cooks and the relaxing customers
the sleepy music ( soo beautiful ) and the screaming and all the voices...
I adore it !
Amazingly simple and simply amazing!