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Short film / Unofficial music video for a track i love.

film by: Eric Lerner
music: Sigur Ros - "Gong"

boy: Dan Weisman
girl: Shasha Dotan
VFX assist: Noam Gelbart

Thanks for watching

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  • Mark Farag 1 year ago
    Really cool film. Great concept! Thank you for sharing!
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  • Roberto Lepe 11 months ago
    Wonderful! Great concept and execution.
  • kate 11 months ago
    luv it.
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  • Diego Prilusky 11 months ago
    Brilliant concept!!! loved the colorful machine and smokes
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  • defasten 11 months ago
    nice, charming. what kind of camera and lense did you use?
  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    Thanks. Used the hopefully not soon to be obsolete sony pmw-ex1 with its natural lenses.
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  • Benjamin Dueñas 11 months ago
    Brrrrr Love Story!!
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  • inMotion 11 months ago
    love it! very beautiful..great story.

    i have to ask though: how did you create the fluid effects?
  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    maya's built-in fluids! and then some after effects tweaking (yey glow).
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  • Brandon Buck 11 months ago
    Absolutely brilliant.
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  • Leon Grant Bussinger 11 months ago
    This is really neat.
    Is that windows running on that mac?
  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    Yes. well spotted.
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  • leahzero 11 months ago
    Sad! Loved it.
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  • Bjorn 11 months ago
    Love the concept! Great!
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  • Machango Studio 11 months ago
    I like so much! Congratulations!
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  • Soxiam staff 11 months ago
    it's beautiful. thank you for sharing this on vimeo.
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  • Tom Geraedts 11 months ago
    Absolutely loved this video! I've been trough this, and this shows what I felt!
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  • Kenny Benitez 11 months ago
    Amazing....Sigur Ros is hard to create visuals to because the music is so powerful the visuals have to live up to that too. You nailed it!
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  • Maxette 11 months ago
    Amazing...
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  • RebelPhoton 11 months ago
    You are a WIZARD!
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  • Bertalan Nagy 11 months ago
    wow, its been a very long time since i seen something this original. Wonderful idea, wonderful song, beautiful execution.
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  • Robert Loughlin 11 months ago
    SIGURROS

    Thought you should know, I happened to be wearing my Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust t-shirt when I watched this
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  • Rob Ouellette 11 months ago
    Very original, beautiful. Hell, it's amazing. I loved this story line.
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  • Dan Valentine plus 11 months ago
    Different. Cool smoke idea.
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  • Kornman 11 months ago
    Cool! I thought I recognized that location between he and the ex-girlfriend - Tel Aviv, yes?
  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    entire film was filmed in Tel-Aviv. you from around here?
  • Kornman 11 months ago
    Nah, from the U.S. Spent time in Israel and Egypt this past January. Saw a few sunsets from that beach - beautiful.
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  • Young & Direct Cinema plus 11 months ago
    wow.. beautiful!!
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  • Panda Claw Pictures 11 months ago
    that was amazing I love sigur ros.
    awesome awesome idea.
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  • Fred Celestino 11 months ago
    Excellent! Clever and sharp.
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  • enano 11 months ago
    Oh my god, what can i say, this is one of the best videos that i ever watched.

    The colors are just amazing, the concept, everything.

    Congrats, loved it!
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  • Isaac Spedding 11 months ago
    Still a huge fan
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  • wildkumar 11 months ago
    slick VFX!
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  • Michael Larsson 11 months ago
    Very nice video! :) What tools were used to shoot it by the way?
  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    sony pmw-ex1, as is.
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  • Matthew Helms 11 months ago
    One of my favorite videos and favorite bands. Great video man!
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  • Scott Gold 11 months ago
    Wow, very moving! Love the colors and smoke/fluid!
    Never seen anything like it before.
    Gotta love Sigur Ros.
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  • Raj 11 months ago
    Beautiful!

    What did you use to create that smoke effect, if you don't mind me asking.

    Such a brilliant concept and I love how real it felt in the way it was shot.
  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    Maya fluid effects
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  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    Thank you, everybody.
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  • CIIX 11 months ago
    awesome clip. It makes it so obvious the get the feeling of the boy. And with Sigur Ros, its way up there !

    Great Work !
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  • Alexander Chernov 11 months ago
    idea +
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  • Lewis Forbes. 11 months ago
    That was nothing short of stellar. Amazing work.
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  • Donald Kilgore plus 11 months ago
    excellent!! brilliant concept, very well done.
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  • Grandchildren plus 11 months ago
    wow! great work, amazing!
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  • Jordan Nelson 11 months ago
    very good work!

    I have a video that also uses this track:

    vimeo.com/1253781
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  • Hache 11 months ago
    A really nice work to a really good song of one of the best groups in our days. Congratulations man.
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  • Peggy666 11 months ago
    I like it! ^^
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  • Mathieu Foucher plus 11 months ago
    This is a really good work about public and private life, and about what we can do for being on TV and have our moments of glory.
    VFX with smoke at the end are great too.
    Congratulations
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  • Chris Beaven 11 months ago
    Wow! what a great video!
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  • Mark Birney 11 months ago
    I wasn't originally going to watch this, but I just felt engrossed, I just had to keep watching.

    Great film, great song. Great tribute to an amazing band.
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  • prosto 11 months ago
    Is it Optimus Upravlator keyboard?
  • Eitan Shefer 11 months ago
    Lol.

    nope. it's a custom built device.
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  • Patrick Thibodeau 11 months ago
    This was so awesome, words cannot express. Great work.
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  • Bill McKee 11 months ago
    Very good. Great story, great acting, great dialogue. I had no idea where you were going with this, but the ride was terrific.
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  • Glenda 11 months ago
    Wow, really nicely done! I had fun watching this
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  • Andrew Stride 11 months ago
    wow!
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  • Tommaso Lanza 11 months ago
    Grande Eric. Love the spontaneousness of it.
    Tracking the whole thing must have been therapeutic exercise especially in the second half!
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  • Teufel Abgott 11 months ago
    great video!!!


    really nice ;)
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  • Aaron Reason 11 months ago
    That was fantastic. Nice work. (I feel like this is the kind of thing/emotional roller coaster/artsy Levis commercial/ style the makers of Cloverfield were going for. But you did it way better)
  • Aaron Reason 11 months ago
    Which particle generator did you use?
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  • Dominic Scariano 11 months ago
    really cool concept man. I like the smoke/fluid effects near the end they are a nice touch. Great job overall, looks like you put alot of work into this.
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  • Chava 11 months ago
    he's so gorgeous
    awwww :(

    sad story
    i just loved it!

    she's a bitch
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  • Avalong 11 months ago
    Nice. I felt real emotions from this story.
    It inspired me a much.
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  • (s e f) 11 months ago
    This is what's it's all about.
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  • Stephen Slater 11 months ago
    כל הכבוד.
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  • J.R.Schriver plus 11 months ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Dmitry Sudarev 11 months ago
    wonderful! ......
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  • Philippp 11 months ago
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  • makiwara 11 months ago
    This is amazing, I love it.
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  • godonholiday plus 11 months ago
    Great work. Really nice idea and execution.
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  • skino 11 months ago
    beautiful...
    i love it.
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  • allroundlaie 11 months ago
    thank you so much for this beautiful video!
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  • Synox 11 months ago
    I LOVE YOUR VIDEO! fantastic!
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  • Joshua Trevor Laney 11 months ago
    Great style, amazing, loved it, keep up the good work
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  • americanvirus plus 11 months ago
    I LOVE THIS SOOOOO MUCH!!! I wish I could 'like' it 200 times. Great job. Thanks for posting this.
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  • Yang Henry 11 months ago
    I love the music,it is engaging !
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  • ronaldo olive 11 months ago
    Nice...
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  • decay79 11 months ago
    ha ha very interesting...
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  • Kai Hellyeah 11 months ago
    great great story
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  • lepetitfakir 11 months ago
    Very beautiful, brilliant cut... Well directed... I say "wo"...
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  • veronika safrankova 11 months ago
    perfect!
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  • Feel Better 11 months ago
    great story, great sigur ros :)
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  • Gary Leo Miller 11 months ago
    nice concept. wonder what it would be like if everyone
    had to wear one of those....
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  • Super Star 11 months ago
    amazing, this is firing my blood..
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  • Taylor Near 11 months ago
    that was excellent
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  • AdamPerlisTV.com 11 months ago
    OMG amazing video and it was shot in TEL AVIV!
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  • Andrew Caughy 11 months ago
    nice. i really liked the viberance of the colors on his chest.
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  • express49 11 months ago
    kOL ha kavod !
    It was so good , I felt I could watch more and more.
    You caught right the pulse of Tel Aviv.
    סיפור מרתק
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  • Blockfish 11 months ago
    great! i loved the smoke
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  • TRiSON 11 months ago
    That was beautiful. What did you use to change the colors on the tv strapped to his front?
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  • Dimitrios Papadopoulos plus 11 months ago
    Beautiful work! Loved the video and the song! Great!
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  • 0200 11 months ago
    sooo beatiful... thankss
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  • Braden Tibbles 11 months ago
    So great! =]
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  • ebaluna 11 months ago
    I loved your work!
    where was this shot? (Somewhere in Israel, right?)
    I appreciate that you chosed that song, Sigur rós is just amazing!
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  • Borja 11 months ago
    Wow! Very touching piece of art.
    And it was nice to see again familiar faces from Bezalel :)
    Be well!
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  • Union of Knives 11 months ago
    fucking LOVE this. check out my new video for details of a music collaboration for a film festival we're doing in scotland. unfortunately my framed "takk" poster is out of shot in the vid. love and luck, craig
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  • Taylor Wood 11 months ago
    Completely stunning. Great job!
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  • Eric Lerner 11 months ago
    thank you my friend. good luck with your studies.
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  • David Bryan 11 months ago
    Gave me goose bumps...seriously. Nice job.
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