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Bjork's Wanderlust Video Premiere at Deitch Studios
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 13, 2008
Modified Mar 14, 2008
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Published Mar 13, 2008
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The new video for Bjork’s song Wanderlust premiered last night at Deitch Studios in Long Island City; it features Bjork surfing down a river winding through a Himalayan landscape on the back of some kind of woolly yak, while a clay doppelganger bursts from her backpack to grapple with her and a quasi-Tibetan demon coaxes her toward the edge of a waterfall. Then things get really far out.
Directing duo Encyclopedia Pictura shot it in 3D with a custom made stereoscopic camera rig and a mix of live action, puppets, scale models, and computer generated animation. Bjork was on hand for the premiere last night and, after a long delay, she announced that the 3D version of the video had technical problems.
“Hardcore people” could wait around for it to be fixed, but nobody seemed to mind watching the regular version in a jerry-rigged screening room; it’s still quite stunning in two dimensions. (Ultimately, the 3D version was not shown.)
The shaggy yak from the video is on display in the gallery, along with storyboards and other set pieces. Along one wall, shelves hold ten stereoscopic viewfinders depicting 3D scenes from the production, including Bjork performing on the set.
The exhibit will be open to the public tonight only, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Deitch Projects new Long Island City space, located at 4-40 44th Drive. Promises were made that the 3D version would be screened tonight.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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