If there's anything one can say about the one-take, super slow-motion video, it's that it's hard to forget. The technique has only been done in music videos a few times before — by the likes of Spike Jonze for Wax, Daniel Askill for Placebo and Peter Fowler for Pixies— and the impact is so solid each time it becomes hard to ever detach the song from its video. It's not surprising, since you're essentially watching a single image unfold for three minute. So here comes the latest entry: Interpol's "The Heinrich Maneuver," as directed by E. Elias Merhige. It's a slow, reverse zoom-out of a weirdly typical Hollywood scene of a pretty
girl sadly distracted by a cell phone conversation and her own fabulousness. While three on-lookers react as they should to the video's looming conclusion, it's not enough to save this Hollywood victim as Merhige rather brutally brings his point home after 3 1/2 minutes. (review by Kevin Holy) --> watch "The Heinrich Maneuver" below...
Interpol "The Heinrich Maneuver" (Capitol)
E. Elias Merhige, director | Independent Media, production co | Mauro Fiore, DP | Mark Langley/The White House, editor
note: Independent Media is a production company (mainly commercials) that specializes in working with feature film directors, including Alfonso Cuaron, Doug Liman, Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack.
