Ramirez "Fantasticno, Bezobrazno"

Directed by Filip Philatz Filkovic
Camera: Marko Rukavina
Editing Montage: Filip Philatz Filkovic
Script / Storyboard / Idea: Filip Philatz Filkovic
DOP: Filip Philatz Filkovic / Marko Rukavina
Visual Effects / Post-Production / Design: Filip Philatz Filkovic
Additional visual effects: Zdenko Basic
Additional sound effects: Filip Philatz Filkovic
Makeup effects: Zdenko Basic
Production manager: Ivan Filkovic
Production: Midnight Formula
Gaffer / Grip: Janko Zubcevic
Filming location: Bunika Studio

Cast: Aljosa Seric, Goran Leka

Realized in October 2009.

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This video is not under any treatment of copyright law what-so-ever. Furthermore it can be reproduced, re-edited, destroyed or reprinted by anyone, anywhere without any obligation to the original author of the feature video. That is what we call freedom.

The author of this work hereby waives all claim of copyright in this work and wants people to use it, distort it or destroy it in their own manner.

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This video is as of 10th October 2010 officially banned from all national TV stations in Croatia - it is played in its original form without any censorship on regional MTV.

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Trivia:
- The painting that can be seen at the end of the video is the famous "Poppy field at Vetheuil" by Claude Monet. The painting that was supposedly stolen by a band of unknown thieves from an art museum in Zurich, Switzerland.

- The small sculpture that can be seen at the end of the video near the telephone is Auguste Rodin's "Eternal Springtime", stolen from French antiques dealer's home near Paris by an unnamed but very skilled thief.

- The storage room where the band plays also contains several paintings that were stolen during the last century; 1) "Le Chemin de Sèvres" by Jean-Baptiste Camille, 2) "Little Thieves" by William A. Bouguereau and the painting with the highest "stolen" ration of all time 3) "Jacob III de Gheyn" by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

- The "storage" room where the band plays also has a few brand name references to "Counterculture Monarchy of Discordianism" cmdland.com and the fictional brands from that monarchy; "Kunstterrorist Organisation" kunstterrorist.com , "Strainmail" strainmail.com , "Nagant" and "Eniroil" eniroil.com. All fictional brands as well as CMDland were created (for art purposes) by director Filip Filkovic Philatz.

- The room where the "game" takes place is decorated by various items such as pharmacy pills (among which are Xanax, Valium, Viagra...), computer floppy diskettes, a copy of The Guardian newspapers, vhs tapes, dices, Jack Daniels whiskey, poker cards, calculator, plain paper, syringe, several 1000 KN bills (Croatian currency), several 5 KN coins (Croatian currency), some cigarette butts but no cigarette boxes and lighters, ashtray, piece of orange, few chess figures, couple of notebooks, an oil barrel next to the table, large boxed crate, plain paper envelopes and notebooks, several Moleskine legendary notebooks, two glasses, dark suitcase, lamp, ordinary lamp, couple of bullets and revolver.

- The time break when one of the characters fires the gun at another is accompanied by special audio background mix to raise the dramatic effect of the shot. The mix is made of song "O mio babbino caro", the sound of an antique clock ticking, the sound of reversed sound of reaction of one of the characters on the set and the yelling of the character shooting the gun played backwards at 75bpm.

- The number that surviving character reads of his palm at the near end of the video reads "190 555 0023". In the dialing montage he actually dials the exact 4 numbers in sequence.

- The wound on the back and front of the head of one of the characters is in fact made out of wheat flour, some water based paint and pure water.

- The entire set was sprayed with some white powder to get the old, dusty and antique look. You can spot that by looking at some of the items on the table. In some scenes the characters were also powdered so that they appear more bright.

- In one of the shots that weren't used in the final montage, one of the characters placed the live bullet inside of the gun barrel, closed the barrel and accidentally (automatically) clicked the gun. The bullet (thankfully) didn't go off - but it was only two holes from the shooting chamber. At that point the live bullets were instantly removed from the set.

- If you look closely enough and count all the turns the two characters pulled the gun, you can notice that they clicked 8 times. The classic sixshooter has 6 bullet chambers. This was done on purpose, to play another turn on reality of the whole video.

- The overall design of intro and outro logotypes and credentials of the video is inspired by 1950s noir films. The general look of the video falls into fictional "washout-spaghetti-brit-noir" category.

- Initially the design of the currency bills on the table were to be fictional 23K$ (Kunst Dollars from fictional Counterculture Monarchy of Discordianism), but the printers failed to print them correctly at the last time so an alternative was used.

- In the scene when we see the dead character laying head down on the table, we can see an orange. In film terminology, the presence of oranges foreshadows the death of a character. (as seen in Godfather Trilogy)

- One of the scenes features famous Bust of Aphrodite our of focus in the far left corner.

- The famous line to describe true events but with changed character names, their appearance or the story itself as depicted in TV shows or movies; "The names were changed to protect the innocent" - was inserted on the very beginning of the video after listening the song by Bomb The Bass "Beat Dis" which has the exact same vocal line mixed in the song.

- At the very end of the video there is a piece of motion animation for "Midnight Formula Production" that is a reference to old movie studio logotypes from the golden age of cinema. The animation and style is directly inspired by the old Universal Pictures and RKO Radio Pictures reels.

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* notes by director Filip Philatz Filkovic