Also, they were very willing to go the extra mile artistically, as exhibited by drummer Øyvind Solheim, who had his hair bleached a rather unbecomingly yellow, to become a bond villain of sorts (that may or may not have been inspired by a certain follicly ‘experimental’ president). The band members, however, were very helpful and served as impromptu crew on set when needed. For two of the locations I had the help of gaffer Poul Iversen, but other than that I was on my own. Therefore I opted to do it all as a one-man crew, with small set-ups and sneakers on my feet, so that I could literally run through the shot-lists.
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Other than that, I was fairly free to do what I wanted, albeit on a very limited budget. Founding member Ketil Mosnes aka Ket-Ill had just re-joined the band after a few years hiatus, and we figured it would be fun to make a point of this in the video. Another premise for the music video was that artist Dolk’s work ‘Low Key’, (a ripped up Lamborghini Gallardo exhibited at Aros art museum in Aarhus, Denmark) was to somehow be included in the work. Fredrik also mentioned the Venom suit from Spider-Man, a reference that is quite apparent in the shorts and the video. The band wanted to emphasize them going in a slightly more serious direction musically, so their trademark red tracksuits were to be replaced by black ones, and the general feel was to be quite dark. He liked some of my previous work and thought I would be a good match for creating visuals for the release of their comeback album ‘Face the Brutality’. I was approached by Datarock-frontman Fredrik Saroea about doing a campaign consisting of stills, motion clips, two shorts (the prequels) and a music video. My main interests are directing and cinematography. I do commercial and artistic work as a photographer, director, cinematographer, VFX artist, designer and also work in outside broadcasting as producer, technical operation manager and camera operator. Being a small city, in a small country, there isn’t really an established film industry here, so partly out of necessity and partly due to a broad curiosity about all things visual I’ve been wearing a lot of different hats professionally.
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Somehow, this movie felt different to me, and ever since I wanted to know why.
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I’ve been interested in movies and film making since I first saw Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ as a kid.
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Sjur Pollen – director and cinematographer Sjur Pollen Director and cinematographer Sjur Pollen talks about the process of making the comeback music video for Norwegian electronic rock band Datarock.