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Civilization is a video installation we created with artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. It's comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down. Pictures of the installation and Q&A with Brambilla and Crush is posted here glossyinc.com/civilization.html

Title: Civilization (MEGAPLEX), 2008 By: Marco Brambilla
Client: The Standard Hotel, New York
Editor/Research Assistant: Beau Dickson
Assistant: Swapna Tamhane
Production Company: Crush, Toronto
Representation/Images Courtesy of: Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Marco Brambilla Directorial Representation:
Ebeling Group U.S.A.

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suprasonic 5 months ago

Nice, it's look like a painting from Jérome Bosh
images.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=jerome+bosh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=WMsvSt2fIePRjAef4cSGCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
Austin Shelton 2 months ago

Good call. I was going say but you beat me to the punch!
Bettina Tizzy 5 months ago

Drooling over the elevator concept. Interestingly, we had a content creation festival in Second Life last year on this theme. Most of what you show here could have been or HAS been realized in 3D. npirl.blogspot.com/2008/05/virtual-art-show-that-would-not-be.html Put some 3D in your elevator :)
Climenole, LLC 5 months ago

Very nice, and great choice on Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for the music!
Swany 5 months ago

epic.
rrier 5 months ago

wow........
fantastic visual! nicely done!
Dmitriy Antonov 5 months ago

This sure is super great.
Dave Sieg 5 months ago

Awesome! Does it pause if the elevator stops at an intermediate floor on the way up/down?
bryan papierski 5 months ago

details! nice!
Ryan Gannon 5 months ago

So cool. It's like a living collage.
Matthew Brown 5 months ago

How much did it cost? There seems to be a lot of copyright licensing involved.
Patxi Hastoy 5 months ago

Lol thought the same I guess designer have access to video databank with a volume fee... I guess
C. Jeff 5 months ago

Epic Trip.
Charles Huettner 5 months ago

thats wild
CRUSH 5 months ago

It is an art piece first and foremost. The artist, Marco Brambilla is immensely talented, with a momumntal vision. As much as we brought to the piece it really is Marco's vision. It really is a moving painting rather than a standard video piece. It doesn't pause but it does reverse. The cost? Well, I think it is actually for sale through Marco's gallery in Los Angeles. What it cost to make? It was a labour of love for all involved. it took roughly six months to complete, and had a team at Crush of roughly eight people.
Matthew Brown 5 months ago

So you guys didn't go through any licensing fees to use many of those shots? If the hotel is paying for it and there are copyright issues you guys might want to watch out for getting sued. The bigger production companies in Los Angeles are recently getting very trigger happy and looking for anyone to sue over copyright infringement. I'm just pointing that out to your attention in case you guys didn't put thought into that yet. With that concern aside, I think it really is an amazing piece of work. I'd love to go to the Hotel it's going to be installed at to check it out in person. Thanks for sharing! :)
Bill Blomgren 5 months ago

Wow - Incredible work on your and Marco's part... I'm amazed that a hotel would like to refer to the lobby as "hell" however... - "Your room is in second purgatory, room 3005...."
B Unis 5 months ago

NYC boutique hotels are like that. Fantastic concept and execution.
Travis Gregory 5 months ago

Did you shoot all of the individual pieces yourselves or is there any stock footage being used? Very, very conceptual. Nice work!
Miguel Ramos 5 months ago

amazing :D
David Dalmazzo 5 months ago

I would like to watch it in HD. It's amazing!
Patxi Hastoy 5 months ago

Me too
Franck Deron 4 months ago

Yes please!
Lukas Vojir 5 months ago

It's brilliant indeed... the question of licensing is interesting though as most of the content is actually cut out of hollywood films.. am I right? Do you need to get permission, or is there a rule saying that as long as it's a piece of art and the footage is use in a collage you are free to use it..?
kaspars 5 months ago

tottal awesomeness
Terry Rayment 5 months ago

God is flexing
bebopdesigner 5 months ago

Bloody hell! I'm blown away. Thanks for that!
Mageztic Stewdioz 5 months ago

Great compositions
Feras Khagani 5 months ago

wowee wow wow wow.

yeah, make sure you don't get sued. I recognized maybe fifty different movies in there.
Feras Khagani 5 months ago

I would imagine since you're really sampling a few seconds rather than entire clips, i don't think you'd run into too much trouble, but it's worth investigating.
misfitsherry 5 months ago

crush knows what they are doing! :)
Bluesea 5 months ago

brilliant!
Lee 5 months ago

It's amazing! 让人感觉很神圣！
laing.one 4 months ago

是啊我也这么觉得
rickflick 5 months ago

Wow. Great job guys.
Peter Szekeres 5 months ago

Perfect! ;)
Seren Wade 5 months ago

Fantastic!
kevin collins 5 months ago

I've never seen more comps in one place! very cool.
malcolm man 5 months ago

some crazy composting. I don't know how you guys are gonna get away with all of those images though...
Chubby Networks 5 months ago

Purely creative work, a labor of love you say, Brilliant!
London Theatre Blog 5 months ago

It's epic and brilliant. I would love to have seen some intimate moments in the film, where a single detail is pulled out before receding back into this sprawling mass.
Manuel Drexl 5 months ago

amazing..and there's the marshmallowman too!
Nikio 5 months ago

WOWOWOWOWW!!! This is epic indeed! This is what Lawrence Lessing is promoting in his book Remix.

It is simply stunning what you did. Beauty is in the details!
Tenzin Butsang 5 months ago

woah, this really puts the end of the world in perspective.
Wiland Pinsdorf 5 months ago

Wow! It looks like a DJ mixing and sampling work, but with images.
Jeremy HUGUES DIT CILES 5 months ago

Best samsara I've ever seen ! Bravo ! Bien vu !
Seri Benazzi 5 months ago

A delightful Bosch casting of extant images creating a fascinating experience of beauty. As Gaudi stated, "originality goes back to origins." As for for licensing, I cannot care as much as others in view of such beauty. Send me to jail for watching, but just let me watch it again in my cell.
Chas B 5 months ago

I have never done acid but I'm guessing that this is what it would be like. great job people.

Oh and the music perfect choice
ailatanotos 5 months ago

OMG!!

I had a very good dream whatching this beauty.

Thanks.
Lin Lin 5 months ago

fantastic!
meltingman 5 months ago

Whoooooo c'est superbe.. merci pour ce beau délire :-)

Thank you :-)
Ethnomite Pux 5 months ago

would like to see on a big screen ... the colours look wonderful.
FX Films 5 months ago

completely mesmerising, amazing, beautiful....oh but your poor PC/Mac, having to cope with that complex composition!!
Jim Helton 5 months ago

Awesome! I would also like to see it on a big screen to see all the details.
Feles Dániel 5 months ago

Wow!
I can't belive my eyes!
johance quijada 5 months ago

wow very interesting!!!

flickr.com/photos/johancequijada/
Harry Juselius 5 months ago

Wow...great ..what a brilliant idea and exellent performance with good music choice... well done....give us more....hj.
Juan Pablo Bouza 5 months ago

This is so inspiring!! Thanks a lot and keep it up!
Brandon Ray 5 months ago

Feels like Bosch meets Wizard of Oz brought to life with the power of advanced video compositing.

If you sold tickets for this elevator at a theme park, I'd probably ride it all day long!
Helena Bulaja 5 months ago

wow..yes very nice...I can imagine it ina elevator... ; )...what about the guests....did they go through catharsis if they sleep on upper mid floors....must be a strange feeling going down the Hell every day and back to the Haven Room...like the work, but must be a strange feeling.....I am curious to know what the ordinary guest feels about this...
rebecca 5 months ago

WOW!!!! AWSOME!!!!

that was like a party for my eyes!!!!!!

:D
maggot 5 months ago

bombastic! its the first moving painting i saw.. something that i always dreamed of, but didnt know before seeing it!!! absolutely breathtaking!!!
yucehunkar 5 months ago

how can this video made ?. it is like a dream.
its look like heaven and hell.
Chris Simon 5 months ago

I can see how the music track adds to the drama, but I would love this to be a hotel with an MP3 on random. I reckon if you ran 6 entirely different soundtracks, (including one by Moby and Girltalk) you would get different vision every time, (with the same cuts). That said, WOW. For me it was like having tea with Botticelli at a good Chemical Brothers gig. (Or the kind of client meeting I always wanted). It really seemed like Renaissance Come Back To Life and has a touch of genius in there, I think. Thank you for the entertainment. Oh-Next time in NYC, I will probably ride The Standard elevator..........................ALL DAY.
Bill T. 5 months ago

Wow! Fabulous piece. Got my attention and held it. Brilliant imagery.
Boreal 5 months ago

mind blowing.
Ghamal de la Guardia 5 months ago

Amazing. Epic. Love the God is flexing part!
Rafael Bautista 5 months ago

Great video. Somehow I kept thinking of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. So many stories being told at once.
EzzA 5 months ago

Very cool!

What is Michael Jackson doing in Heaven though?! lol
Lord Melvin M. Lusterio 5 months ago

Wonderful! Let us choose Heaven as our eternal home!
Trevor Jacobson 5 months ago

There was so much going on inside that video I have no real idea what the overall message was supposed to be.

But the overall product was so trippy I absolutely loved it! Nice work guys!
Zyfddi 5 months ago

awasome
mike ambs ☂ 5 months ago

That's crazy :) Great job!
Stephen Niebauer 5 months ago

intense
Yoon Shik Kim 5 months ago

WOW!! Completely eccentric and yet inspiring!! This was excellent!!
Bastian L'arq Olea 5 months ago

Please, pleade, post the HD version!
Simon Erich 5 months ago

I'm with everyone else, I think this is a beautiful and visually stunning piece!
I'm also with the group in wondering how you're dealing with the copyright issues attached with such a work. It really doesn't matter the size, length or effects applied over a clip from a movie, the studio can pursue you for copyright infringement.
Again, great work... I was surprised to read that you ended up using a Flame to composite everything, I guess it was a little too much for After Effects!
tap tap 5 months ago

I wish to see it in super high res in public space at night/evening summer time! or in turbine hall in TATE MODERN in London as well...good luck!
La fusa 5 months ago

Increible
Urge Productions 5 months ago

This is great, even if not in HD.
Would love to see the installation. New York soon...
Beder 5 months ago

awesome.
michael walker 5 months ago

i didnt get what it was at first but now i understand it...really well put together :) enjoyed it too
eslam amin 5 months ago

WoW what a composition
that`s great
WoW
Chris del Moire 5 months ago

massive.
someone's been taking acid here.
Carlo 5 months ago

Awesome.
The Red Paintings 5 months ago

Hey there, would you guys be up for working with a band on music video? i have song i can send to view...Cheers Trash
Shagane Barsegian Launey 5 months ago

I like your work, it made me think of the movie Mitropolis. I don't know if you are familiar with it. It is a great film from 1927, Silent Film. There is a scene there where a young and naive prince goes from the top of the earth (heaven, the good place) to the bottom of the earth(hell, ugly place where all the labor and workers are). If you have not seen it, I think you would really enjoy it ;)
aaron hernandez 5 months ago

wow totally cool
Simone Lagrotteria 5 months ago

awesome!!! still wonder how you did that
rotov 5 months ago

Where's Wally?......
Christian Tafur 5 months ago

Awesome, this would make an awesome screensaver too!!!!
Dancefloor Mayhem 5 months ago

This is amazing!
Jason Bosch 5 months ago

I am stunned! Absolutely brilliant.
Martin Capatinta 5 months ago

amazing
Rob Wellens 5 months ago

Are these all original clips? I'm assuming some are public domain but I'm just curious about the legality of sourcing footage in a collage. It's an inspiring work.
Rob Wellens 5 months ago

Upon watching it again I saw unmistakable imagery from Ghostbusters, Close Encounters, E.T., Dune, Altered States. There must be some royalty paperwork involved in this.
Daniel Hayek 5 months ago

Saw this in real life yesterday, it is cool.
ioanna vr. 5 months ago

what a creation!!
Ravin Ramkissoon 5 months ago

This is the best thing i have ever seen !
David Dunnico 5 months ago

Great stuff