Pitchfork

As fan videos go, this one is especially involved and labor-intensive. But then, it's not really a fan video, and it wasn't done just for kicks. Rather, Asst. Professor Matthew Soar at Concordia University in Montréal, as a contribution to the Open Source Cinema Project, teamed with his students and spent what he describes as "three very intensive weeks rotoscoping a concert video" of Girl Talk. They were, he says, inspired by Bob Sabiston's digital rotoscoping (Snack and Drink, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly), and by Christine Harold's OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, a textbook used for his communications course. Personally, I am reminded of the Beastie Boys' "Shadrach" video, though I understand that was painted by hand and not rotoscoped. "Each student did a separate section of 1-3 seconds' duration," he explains, to give an idea of the massive amount of work that went into it. It was time well spent! This video rules. More information on the video and the project are here.

 

[from Night Ripper; out now on Illegal Art]