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Royksopp - The Drug music video

Directed by that go (Noel Paul & Stefan Moore)

Producer: Richard Hutchins
DP: Michael Ragen
HMU+Style: Shawn Lovejoy
UPM: Doug McCafferty
Featuring: Amanda Bauer, Jessie Vanatta, Jenna Lammert
Voices: Traci Eggleston, Jennifer Newberry

Production Company: Rokkit
Label: Astralwerks/Wall of Sound
Commissioner: John Moule

Short film featuring more tracks from "Senior" available here: vimeo.com/14998387

Special thanks: Mike Prevette, Melody Roscher, Traci Eggleston, Erin Thompson, David Robert Mitchell

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Nils Daniel William Platt 1 year ago

This is awesome. I really, really dig the mood. Is it an unofficial video? Where was it recorded!?
Nils Daniel William Platt 1 year ago

Eh, of course it's official-- unless you guys have too much money on your hands :D
Eirik Zeiner-Henriksen 1 year ago

Ahh, i love this :D Whats the location? please.
thatgo 1 year ago

detroit
Eddi Hughes 1 year ago

That's what I thought. My second guess would have been Chernobyl Ukraine
Robert Tyree 1 year ago

Whoot whoot! Love it.
Hitesh K 1 year ago

Very dark...and very well done.
Julian Marquez 1 year ago

Chaotic pop!
JO KAMI 1 year ago

Biutiful
mpared 1 year ago

brilliant posted at the curious brain
Blake Whitman 1 year ago

Gorgeous. Nice work, guys. Love the subtle 'thatgo' tags on the walls.
Lasse Storholt 1 year ago

Looking forward to Senior, loved the sound. Very very dark vid..
D.M Hughes 1 year ago

Quite odd, I like!
Gavj 1 year ago

puta cosa mas impresionate dios mio gracias!!!!
lospepitos 1 year ago

high def slumming
McKenna Carpenter 1 year ago

Really Great Work!
Mograph TV 1 year ago

Shit... this was cool but so freaking weird lol. I don't understand the creative direction but yeah, I still enjoyed it.
Gabriel Shalom 1 year ago

Watch Tarkovsky's film Stalker and you'll pick up a couple references ;)
Ralphie Sea. 1 year ago

Artistically superior.
Nicholas Kaufmann 1 year ago

I wanna see the film!!
Martynas Mandrijauskas 1 year ago

shot on red?
Mr.Moviesmaker 1 year ago

Just great!! In every way!
Jostein Havik Eriksen 1 year ago

dødts bra video! Gleder meg til album!
er det skutt på RED eller DSLR/shot on RED or DSLR?
Sandro Antonucci 1 year ago

I'd also like to know camera and lenses
AKA.com.uy 1 year ago

excelent. the location is awesome.
Joshua Dzikiewicz 1 year ago

I think it tried to hard to be artsy and weird, it was just came off as dumb and pointless,
Eric Thompson 1 year ago

I will refrain from making an obvious statement about your avatar/comment combo. Too easy.
Teresa A- 1 year ago

Ha ha
Leon 1 year ago

Agree with Joshua, with no avatar at my side: fell like pretensions of being someway modern and with an ambient, putting girls with empty (maybe thinking of that is "cool") looks in big clothes and some ugly makeup to make a quite numb afterworld statement. Just see a lot of emptyness, just enjoyed location. Dont see use of critic for critic, but dont understand so much enthusiasm. Am Im too fixed on acting and sense and subtle atmospheric shots?
Eldorado Entertainment 11 months ago

Well, Leon, sometimes it is not about what we like or don't, but just what other people wanted or needed to express: I don not understand this video completely, but I appreciate the effort and the courage of making such a strange and disturbing work. Since the song it supports in called The Drug, maybe that was the idea.
Kind regards,
David
Nicholas Ummarino 1 year ago

I love the video, great cinematography and usage of locations too.
John Schuchard 1 year ago

cheerleaders come to detroit to jump on the ghetto-porn bandwagon. then nothing happens. sorry, every art school student here already shot this video.
H. Wolfe III 1 year ago

Bizarre!
But no doubt about it, that's Detroit.
Tomas Hoffman 1 year ago

Great work! Very sad, but beautiful. If you like this imagery of urban decay in Detroit, also check out these amazing stills from Yves Marchand: marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html
Dan DeGloria 1 year ago

Great link thanks.
Travis Nobles 1 year ago

Can you spot G.I.R?
Beekeeper 1 year ago

Very nice video!
Justin Kielbasa 1 year ago

the first video i've seen in a while that's actually wowed me. very different and very cool.
Daniel d'Ascenzo 1 year ago

Just excellent! ;) love it!
Andrenalin 1 year ago

whats this bad taste style for ?
Jason Brooks 1 year ago

Beautiful cinematography (though slightly repetitive shot selection). Grade helps to create a nice dark mood.

I must say though (and perhaps I'm just not 'getting' it), it did seem about as meaningful as your average hiphop video.

I don't think it's enough to shoot 35mm, and slap on a nice grade (sprinkle in weirdly yet 'cute' teenage girls, some deformed/madeup actors, and a semi-automatic), to make a great video. I agree with Schuchard et al. above that it didn't really change anything for me.

Does *anyone* have any guesses as to a meaning or hook?

jason
Matthew Skibicki 1 year ago

no message. music video. nice and ambiguous.
Eric Thompson 1 year ago

It creates a feeling. Like the music.
vind 1 year ago

^ what he said : to me it's about about the stirring of emotion from its dark beauty...
Ryan Simmons 1 year ago

I can tell lots of thought went into this piece, but I find it sad and unfortunate that story took a backseat to ambiguity (for ambiguity's sake).
Joshua McCormack 1 year ago

loved it
Aaron Freeder 1 year ago

What cam did you use?? Really like the consistent color and lighting you guys have. The fireside scene was amazing and everything consistently looks great. It really added to the mood.
Frank Kimmerle 1 year ago

Very powerful and profoundly sad image of America.
Phillip Harris 1 year ago

What was really sad for me was when the price of steel went up in the late '70s causing all the small junkyards to be cleaned up and in the process eliminating my favorite photographic subject matter.

I will have to visit Detroit. It looks like fun to me.
Callum Rice 1 year ago

This is breathtaking. Ditto Justin Kielbasa above.
Ray Roman 1 year ago

Wow, I loved every second of this! The visuals blew me away...
Rip Current 1 year ago

Go figure, Detroit, shoulda seen that one coming. Thought it coulda been shot in some war-torn European slum, but shoulda known better
Dorian Vasco 1 year ago

Scary locations. It really looks like the abandoned Prypiat.

And I like the music!
Craig Goode 1 year ago

Good work!
Matthew Skibicki 1 year ago

cute girls ;D
Radar 1 year ago

Very uncomfortable, great video
Rakesh Erukulla 1 year ago

some awesome visuals you have captured...cheers!!
Stanislava Buevich 1 year ago

Although incredibly beautiful and atmospheric, some of the images just seem pointless... wish there was more meaning, I guess. But super beautiful none the less...
Bruno Fujii 1 year ago

You got a point.
CamContacts 1 year ago

Nice images and I can't wait for 'Senior'!
Adam Horn 1 year ago

29 Days Later?
Dalma Cseh 1 year ago

...a bit sick,right?
wow
viaria 1 year ago

interesting, odd, cool.
Bora Sayginer 1 year ago

Fantastic work, well done
peekabook 1 year ago

wich drugs did you took?
Andrew Frame 1 year ago

looks like Post Soviet Ukraine province.
Gisela 1 year ago

Omg, she's wearing scrunchies!
Bugulab Studio 1 year ago

А мне не понравился ролик. Технически все исполнено на отлично, нравится, что подход неумозрительный, нет никаких клише, нет литературности, работа над гримом и образом персонажей просто на высоте; но ролик несет в себе скрытое зло под прикрытием поисков новых новаторских форм и действует на подсознание, что уже само по себе не гуманно.
thatgo 1 year ago

Что за хуй
Bugulab Studio 1 year ago

Это не делает вам чести как художнику и как просто человеку. Жаль. Если вас задел чем-нибудь, то просто забудьте.
thatgo 1 year ago

огорченно. я оцениваю обратную связь. было плохой шуткой.
Bugulab Studio 1 year ago

Может быть вы не знаете (может быть программа-перевочик дал вам не правильный перевод того, что вы хотели сказать на самом деле), но употребленное вами слово используется в грубых выражениях с целью нахамить. Если вы знаете смысл этого слова, и хотели пошутить с ее использованием, то это очень грубая шутка. Я не требую извинений (не такое приходилось слышать), просто буду рад, если мой ответ окажется полезным для вас. Удачи!
Sasha Nevolin 1 year ago

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Designcollector ※ 1 year ago

Что за хуй? =)
Sam Lockyer 1 year ago

What did I just see?
Jens Bjørn 1 year ago

Paranoia!
Ryan Krenz 1 year ago

Such an amazing video. Like others have said, its music paired with video. It totally gives the viewer the sensation and mood the artist was probably trying to put out.
Eric Utah 1 year ago

Loved the closeup on the eyes with the Traci actor during the moment with the dog . Very cool.
Marc Petersen 1 year ago

Maybe a nice mood, but I didn't get the point. Especially the development of a dramaturgy fails at the end. A cool location and some weired scenes are not enough to call a music video brilliant.
rob van meurs 1 year ago

OHHHHHHHHHHHH

awesome!!
Michael Eurek 1 year ago

Great sound, great video. Reminded me of The Road. I still cannot believe that this post nuclear apocalyptic-looking location is Detroit! Insane!
fpworkshop 1 year ago

awesome...!
vind 1 year ago

...did i miss something, or is the preview frame not apparent in the video ?
Julien 1 year ago

horrible and beautiful....

:/
Nicholaus Goossen 1 year ago

Very cool. Post-apocalyptic setting with girls in theme-park spray paint shirts? Anamorphic photography?

Loves it.

Also - music videos don't need to have a "meaning".
Donato Totaro 1 year ago

Very nice job. Even though the post-apocalyptic has been done to death, there's a reason why, and that's because it works. Anytime in history feels like it could be the last. Meaning? Well, great looking people peeping into their 'ugly' mirror reflections so at to say, "look at what we've done, what we've become...."
Medvedi Petrovichi 1 year ago

You must know Royksopp very well in order to understand the sound and the video.
The song is called "the drug", the melody builds up in our head as a drug does, makes us feel dizzy, uncertain, free, the video looks like someone's dream, by the end that girl wakes up and watches the moon, it was her dream..
There are a lot of clues which explain this.
Leon 1 year ago

Ok, tried to see it from this point of view. Would have prefered just seeing atmospehric shots (has a little of that), but without actresses (people pretendig to act) or symbols (gun, skulls) when there is no sense behind. If you have nothing to say, be consecuent with that, it can be great, but this has the pretention of meanings. Would have liked also some color correction..
francoe 1 year ago

I Agree.
Badly pretentious shit.
I can't imagine a showy teenage script when I hear Senior.
Matthew Sibley 11 months ago

Leon, this has been graded un graded raw footage looks extremely different to this. Also we shouldn't forget that not everything has to have a meaning we live in an age of postmodernism not everything has to end with the narrative wrapped up. Lets not forget Rowland Barthes idea of Death of the Author Birth of the Reader. I agree with Medvedi's point.
Britta Johnson 1 year ago

A++ gents; beautiful and spooky-
infamous ioane 1 year ago

please give the download link
Tano Iozzi 1 year ago

i do like a bit of dystopia
Micah Van Hove 1 year ago

This is really vexing.
george oprea 1 year ago

Sick !
Dan Hewitt 1 year ago

Love it!
Jessica May 1 year ago

Holy shit! This is incredible! I love everything you guys come out with! Seriously!
Lush Larry 9 months ago

love the dichotomy
Elana Wilson 9 months ago

This is beautifully crafted with great cinematography. The lighting was great - I especially liked the shot of the girl beside the wall in the rain.
Also, there doesn't need to be a narrative or a point to the video. And I think the girls are great - because they are expressionless I think it makes it all the more haunting.
My only negative point would be on the predictive cutting - it's nice to edit shots off-beat sometimes.
Pouff 8 months ago

After reading all of these comments, the music and imagery is still bouncing around my head. Great Video. Awesome music!