vj stalker on re-mixing wasted! (naar de klote!)
Already in 1997 I remixed ‘Wasted!’, a fast-paced drama movie about techno and drugs by Ian Kerkhof, the director, who gave me copies of all rushes. It took me a couple of weeks to sort everything out (pre-computer age for me) but it was worth the effort: over 350 people attended at first performance (Effenaar/Eindhoven) and because of that it could be done a second time at a local festival (Virus, at the City Theatre; 500+ att.). Very unfortunately that was the end of this story, because when I was invited to do it again at the Dutch Filmfestival, Ian asked me not to do it since he wasn’t the copyright-owner and he wasn’t allowed to give me the rushes in the first place. Pity, I could have been world-famous for that in the Netherlands.
Looking back at it I don’t think it was very good, especially not according to present standards. Still I think it was pretty original and I don’t know if anyone else has ever done a feature-remix using all rushes. The following movies I had to make at filmacademy I shot with the remix allready in the back of my head; I even took a vj on set to make premixes of the scenes that were being shot (I used 2 cameras). The edited result never was as exciting as the live remixed performance.
Nowadays I still use samples, besides self-shot material. It has developed though from AddictiveTV-style loops and scratches toward organic compositions in which the original material is still recognizable, but processed in such way that a complete new esthetic and/or meaning arises.
this article first appeared on vjforums.com
November 26th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
who could ever forget them
doing the gogo in front of the mirror
wasted and pasted in powder