Press release from Tsuki
Always at the forefront of new techniques and styles, Sixty40 have produced the first music video for Warp Records artist Harmonic 313 and his next single Battlestar, pioneering a new take on stereoscopic camera work to create a lo-fi 3D effect.
Sixty40 were presented with a totally open brief, which resulted in an eye-popping and mind bending vision to suit the artist and style of music.
With on-air dates set for May / June, this film clip and its curious technique comes at a time when production companies such as Disney and Animal Logic are clamouring to make 3D Stereoscopic movies. Sixty40 have harnessed this new direction with totally original results.
“Battlestar” is the most significant film clip we’ve made, for the level of freedom given to us by the artist and Warp Records, but also for us pushing an idea seeded by an animated .gif into a full length clip. Harmonic 313 liked the result so much he went back and re-mixed his own track to fit the finished vision," said Mark Simpson, Design Director Sixty40.
Stereoscopic imaging imitates the way human vision works, i.e. two eyes using binocular vision to feed 3 dimensional information to the brain to help it judge distance, locations and speed.
Sixty40 shot this music video using two identical cameras separated in space to mimic two eyes, to trick the brain into believing it is seeing with “binocular vision”, by blending two views into one moment in time.
Instead of mixing the two images together in the “traditional” sense, Sixty40 rapidly flicked between each eye’s view to create a different impression of depth, resulting in an intense sense of warped reality. It’s a technique inspired by two frame animations of old 3D photos (like this).
Harmonic 313 (aka Mark Pritchard, aka Reload aka 1/2 of Global Communications and 1/2 of Jedi Knights) is a prolific experimental electronic artist, releasing seminal records since the 1990s, and through Warp Records since 1993. This will be his first music video.
To mark this auspicious occasion, he came to Sixty40 to harness their innovative left-of-centre ideas and imaginative techniques to translate his floor-filling tracks to TV. The Battlestar film clip tells the story of a deceivingly small binocular spaceship that comes to earth to decimate an unsuspecting b-boy in order to conquer the universe.
One of Australia’s most avant-garde B-Boy’s turned international visual and installation artist Andy Uprock stars as the target of this intergalactic attack, his exceptional talent a perfect fit for this flick-tastic performance based clip.
To view Battlestar click here: www.sixty40.com/battlestar.html
Please view with caution if flickering imagery is medically unsound for you.