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Technology + Teamwork 'You Saw Something In Me' by Simon Owens

Rob Ulitski - 16th Aug 2023

Simon Owens directs an unconventional love story for London-based electronic duo Technology + Teamwork. And if you've never seen a love story between two trashbags, you're in for a treat...

Owens' idea is essentially a simple one, executed to perfection: a pair of red plastic bin bags lipsyncing convincingly to what the director describes as "a horror version banger of an Eastern European Eurovision pop song."

Shot in a realistic, 'warts and all' way - with the bin bags situated in all the places you would usually find them - the visual feels gritty yet charming, and strangely fitting to the track.

"On first listen I genuinely found the opening vocal shocking," says Owens."It could be a pitched-down Taylor Dayne singing a Hall and Oates tune over Belgian Techno. I had to make a video for this tune.

"But what? Two bin bags, one in love with another, no matter what, run over, hospitalised, and lip-syncing. Natch."

Natch indeed. 

Rob Ulitski - 16th Aug 2023

Tags

  • Comedy
  • Director's notes
  • Electronic
  • Trash Bag
  • Puppet
  • Humour
  • Suburban
  • Unconventional
  • Eurovision

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