January 2014

Sorry Cattle Decapitation, but Marijuana Deathsquads is my new favorite band name. And I bet there are more than a few directors who are really bummed that someone else got to make an epic suicidal Ewok video.

Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac could develop a reputation for taking odd on-screen journeys. His role as Mr. Carpool in Trentemøller "Gravity" doesn't have the soul-searching qualities as the one he makes in the Coen brothers folk movie, but it's filled with even more unexpected characters.

Tue Walin Storm and Elvira Lind, directors: "We wanted to make a video that paid tribute to LA and to the great diversity of people inhabiting this incredible place. It’s a journey on the pulsating veins of the city, the inevitable freeway. Simultaneously we wanted to enter the private sphere of random people’s vehicles – which basically is an extension of ones home – and explore the intimate moment when two strangers are voluntarily invaded by each other in a confined space.

We come from different backgrounds — Elvira from documentaries background and Tue from fiction as part of the directing duo Storm/Hansen — so we wanted to utilize our different work methods in our approach to the video and create a fictionalized documentary.

The idea was to have a more or less scripted story line, but letting the details write themselves as we were shooting. We used a mix of actors and real people who brought their own stories and personalities to the table. We created a few characters we knew we wanted in the video, but the majority are improvised as we shoot and captured in a documentary fashion. Mr. Carpool is all Oscar. He’s a brilliant actor and created this amazing personality for the character.