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3 years ago
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 3 years ago
    Really cool film. Great concept! Thank you for sharing!
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  • roberto e lepe plus 3 years ago
    Wonderful! Great concept and execution.
  • kateopolis 3 years ago
    luv it.
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  • Diego Prilusky plus 3 years ago
    Brilliant concept!!! loved the colorful machine and smokes
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  • defasten plus 3 years ago
    nice, charming. what kind of camera and lense did you use?
  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    Thanks. Used the hopefully not soon to be obsolete sony pmw-ex1 with its natural lenses.
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  • Benjamin Dueñas 3 years ago
    Brrrrr Love Story!!
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  • Abram Hodgens 3 years ago
    love it! very beautiful..great story.

    i have to ask though: how did you create the fluid effects?
  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    maya's built-in fluids! and then some after effects tweaking (yey glow).
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  • Brandon Buck 3 years ago
    Absolutely brilliant.
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  • This is really neat.
    Is that windows running on that mac?
  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    Yes. well spotted.
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  • leahzero 3 years ago
    Sad! Loved it.
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  • Bjorn 3 years ago
    Love the concept! Great!
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  • machango studio plus 3 years ago
    I like so much! Congratulations!
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  • Soxiam staff 3 years ago
    it's beautiful. thank you for sharing this on vimeo.
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  • Tom Geraedts 3 years ago
    Absolutely loved this video! I've been trough this, and this shows what I felt!
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  • Kenny Benitez plus 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Amazing...
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  • RebelPhoton 3 years ago
    You are a WIZARD!
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  • Bertalan Nagy 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Very original, beautiful. Hell, it's amazing. I loved this story line.
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  • Dan Valentine plus 3 years ago
    Different. Cool smoke idea.
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  • Shawn Kornhauser 3 years ago
    Cool! I thought I recognized that location between he and the ex-girlfriend - Tel Aviv, yes?
  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    entire film was filmed in Tel-Aviv. you from around here?
  • Shawn Kornhauser 3 years 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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  • wow.. beautiful!!
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  • Panda Claw Pictures 3 years ago
    that was amazing I love sigur ros.
    awesome awesome idea.
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  • Fred Celestino 3 years ago
    Excellent! Clever and sharp.
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  • enano 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Still a huge fan
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  • wildkumar 3 years ago
    slick VFX!
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  • Michael Larsson 3 years ago
    Very nice video! :) What tools were used to shoot it by the way?
  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    sony pmw-ex1, as is.
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  • Matthew Helms 3 years ago
    One of my favorite videos and favorite bands. Great video man!
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  • Scott Gold plus 3 years 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 muneshwar 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Maya fluid effects
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  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    Thank you, everybody.
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  • CIIX 3 years 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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  • LUCHPROD.COM plus 3 years ago
    idea +
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  • Lewis Forbes. 3 years ago
    That was nothing short of stellar. Amazing work.
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  • Donald Kilgore plus 3 years ago
    excellent!! brilliant concept, very well done.
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  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    wow! great work, amazing!
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  • Jordan Nelson 3 years ago
    very good work!

    I have a video that also uses this track:

    vimeo.com/1253781
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  • Hache 3 years 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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  • Peggy Shrooms 3 years ago
    I like it! ^^
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  • Mathieu Foucher plus 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Wow! what a great video!
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  • Mark Birney 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Is it Optimus Upravlator keyboard?
  • Eitan Shefer 3 years ago
    Lol.

    nope. it's a custom built device.
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  • Bill McKee 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Wow, really nicely done! I had fun watching this
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  • Andrew Stride 3 years ago
    wow!
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  • t mm s nz 3 years 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 3 years ago
    great video!!!


    really nice ;)
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  • Aaron Reason 3 years 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 3 years ago
    Which particle generator did you use?
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  • Dominic Scariano 3 years 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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  • Salvador 3 years ago
    he's so gorgeous
    awwww :(

    sad story
    i just loved it!

    she's a bitch
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  • Avalong 3 years ago
    Nice. I felt real emotions from this story.
    It inspired me a much.
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  • SEF video 3 years ago
    This is what's it's all about.
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  • Stephen Slater 3 years ago
    כל הכבוד.
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  • Jens Schriver plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Genis Dorbach 3 years ago
    wonderful! ......
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  • Philipp plus 3 years ago
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  • makiwara 3 years ago
    This is amazing, I love it.
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  • godonholiday 3 years ago
    Great work. Really nice idea and execution.
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  • skino 3 years ago
    beautiful...
    i love it.
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  • allroundlaie 3 years ago
    thank you so much for this beautiful video!
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  • Joshua Trevor Laney 3 years ago
    Great style, amazing, loved it, keep up the good work
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  • americanvirus 3 years 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 3 years ago
    I love the music,it is engaging !
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  • ronaldo olive 3 years ago
    Nice...
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  • decay79 3 years ago
    ha ha very interesting...
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  • Kai Hellyeah 3 years ago
    great great story
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  • lepetitfakir 3 years ago
    Very beautiful, brilliant cut... Well directed... I say "wo"...
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  • veronika safrankova 3 years ago
    perfect!
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  • Feel Better 3 years ago
    great story, great sigur ros :)
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  • Eye Level Films plus 3 years ago
    nice concept. wonder what it would be like if everyone
    had to wear one of those....
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  • BananaOrangeGuy 3 years ago
    amazing, this is firing my blood..
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  • Taylor Near plus 3 years ago
    that was excellent
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  • Adam Perlis 3 years ago
    OMG amazing video and it was shot in TEL AVIV!
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  • Andrew Caughy 3 years ago
    nice. i really liked the viberance of the colors on his chest.
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  • express49 3 years 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 3 years ago
    great! i loved the smoke
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  • Michael__McLean 3 years ago
    That was beautiful. What did you use to change the colors on the tv strapped to his front?
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  • Beautiful work! Loved the video and the song! Great!
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  • 0200 3 years ago
    sooo beatiful... thankss
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  • Braden Tibbles 3 years ago
    So great! =]
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  • ebaluna 3 years 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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  • Klim&Co plus 3 years ago
    Wow! Very touching piece of art.
    And it was nice to see again familiar faces from Bezalel :)
    Be well!
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  • Song of Return 3 years 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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  • Paul Taylor Wood plus 3 years ago
    Completely stunning. Great job!
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  • Eric Lerner 3 years ago
    thank you my friend. good luck with your studies.
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  • David Bryan plus 3 years ago
    Gave me goose bumps...seriously. Nice job.
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  • Meinardas Animator 3 years ago
    wow! that's amazing!
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  • 3 years ago
    !
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