Director Laura Iancu’s music video for psychedelic electronic group F E B R A offers viewers a speedy journey through an otherworldly forest–one full of shimmering, flashing trees and grasses of a thousand different colors (as well as a springy, percussive soundtrack).
Even though I’m not a citizen, living by the mountains in Virginia is the closest I arrived to a feeling of home in the US.
I was looking at center pivot irrigation sites on google earth and I wondered what they would look like mapped in 3D on environments that are human-sized. The leaves of the trees are crop circles, the bark is textured with images of pumpjacks and so on. From there I let the kick of the music take over.
I think this is a common story, kid gets camera, kid records everything, kid becomes good at it. I recorded my grandparents the most and when I became intelligent enough to understand my activity as a filmmaking practice that footage became a full length observational documentary. I think I started making films out of boredom and an intense desire to archive.
I got an eye infection and it puffed up so I looked like a diseased gerbil for a few days.
Acquiring and preserving fresh impressions of the creative south.
Because I’m overripe with excitement for them to.