I The Smile, ultimo progetto musicale di Thom Yorke e Jonny Greenwood dei Radiohead, annunciano l’uscita di un secondo album con il videoclip della title track Wall of Eyes, diretto da nientemeno che Paul Thomas Anderson, non nuovo a collaborazione con Yorke e compagnia.
Nel promo non c’è solo il “muro di occhi”, evocato fin dal titolo, ma un continuo gioco di sguardi, che fin da subito coinvolge direttamente lo spettatore. Se gli occhi che si posano su Yorke lo conducono progressivamente verso uno stato dissociativo, è lui stesso a rivolgersi verso di noi, chiamandoci in causa, con un estenuante sguardo fisso in camera, nonostante tutto attorno si muova a velocità superiore o il vento sembri spazzare via ogni cosa.
Credits
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman, Shirley O’Connor
Editor: Andy Jurgensen
Production Companies: Ghoulardi Film Company, Object & Animal
Executive Producers, Object & Animal: Dom Thomas, Laura Hegarty, Morgan Clement
First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
Gaffer: Jonny Franklin
Key Grip: Charlie Wyldeck-Flowers
Camera Operators: Chunky Richmond, Jaime Ackroyd
Line Producer: Bugs Hartley
Production Manager: Katie Kennedy
Production Designer: Arthur De Borman
Key Focus Puller: Olly Driscoll
Key 2nd Assistant Camera: Glenn Coulman
Focus Puller: Paul Wheeldon
2nd Assistant Camera: Matt Wright
Camera Trainee: Em Davis
2nd Assistant Director: Sekani Doram
Desk Operator: Nathan Porter
Electrics: Martin Taylor, Steve Young, Genki McClure, James Pelham, Dave Blinko, Ryan Cartin
Grip: Danny Brennan
Art Director: Anna Grabowska
Location Managers: Jonah Coombes, Ben White
Assistant Location Manager: Flora Campbell
Video Playback: Alex Bates
Sound / Audio Playback: Steve Hodge
Colorist: Jodie Davidson
Costume (Background): Susie Coulthard
Make Up: Lucie Blundell Jones
Set Production Assistants: Harvey Moore, Luke Boxall
Art Assistants: Ben Hughes, Ted Pearce, Tim ‘Don Pepp’ Crosbie
Production Driver: Ross Howieson
Camera Car Driver: Anthony Bugge
Minibus Driver: Mark Righelato
Medic: Paul Hollick
Gallowglass Crew: Ababacar Toure, Omar Hussein, Juan David Varela
Location Marshalls: Rhiannon Plummer, Matthew Bowen, Darryl Coulson, Edgar Adekoya
Rushes Runner: Laurent Durham
Panavision Cameras: Lori Killam, Dan Sasaki, Victoria Harris, Sophie Elvin
Kodak Film: Vanessa Bendetti
CineLab: Adrian Bull, Aarti Mahtani, Ryan Morris
Picture Shop: Matt Adams, Hamish Mason, Donovan Bush
Panalux
TSL Lighting
Filmed at The Mildmay Club, and on location in London, England
October 24-26, 2023