Get the Promonews daily round up

User Accounts

Get the Promonews daily round up

Alt-J 'Deadcrush' by Young Replicant

Luke Bather - 14th July 2017

If you could go on a date with anyone living or dead, who would it be? Alt-J made their picks and that became the basis of Young Replicant's science fiction dance film.

Acting on behalf of the band, a machine in a subterranean bunker chooses Sylvia Plath, Lee Miller and Anne Boleyn, or at least it chooses their memories. Projected through small glass discs we intercut between these haunting, animated dance scenes (choreographed by Darcy Wallace) that are given a personality based on a computer's understanding of history.

There's a detached, uncanny valley element to the clip - Alex Takacs aka Young Replicant's second for the band's current album, after the brilliant 3WW earlier this year – as these renditions of historical figures live again for a fleeting moment before fading with the light of the projector.

Tags

  • Choreography
  • VFX
  • Alternative

Featured sponsors

Popular content

Feedback

Problem with this page? Let us know

Credits

Log in or sign up to PRO to see 21 more credits on this video.

Production/Creative

Director
Alex Takács (fka Young Replicant)
Producer
Production Company
Executive Producer
Production Manager
Production Coordinator
1st AD

Camera

Director of Photography
Focus Puller
Steadicam

Lighting/Grip

Grip

Art

Art Director

Wardrobe

Stylist
Hair & Make-up

Choreography

Choreographer

Editorial

Editor
Editing company

Grading

Colourist

VFX

Post production company
Post Producer

Misc

Assistant Producer
2nd AD
Clapper Loader
DIT

Luke Bather - 14th July 2017

Related Content

Industry News