Christophe Thockler plays with fire for Victoria+Jean music video
Music: director Christophe Thockler used "10 litres of gasoline" to create this fiery stop-motion music video for avant-pop duo Victoria+Jean.
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Thockler combined video and stop-motion footage to make the music video, in which Victoria+Jean perform their track Why Won't You via a series of burning photographs.
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"A few years ago, I directed a stop-motion video with ice melting," Thockler told Dezeen. "Since then I've always wanted to create something only using fire, mixing video and stop motion."
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"This piece of music was a perfect playground for me to play with rhythm, fast-paced stop-motion sequences and of course symbolism," he said.
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Thockler set light to hundreds of photographs, which he shot over 8,000 times as they smouldered and charred to create the stop-motion elements of the video.
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He combined these segments with video footage of burning matches, candles and rolls of camera film.
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"It's made with 400 burning printed photos and 10 litres of gasoline," he claimed. "Shooting this video was quite an artistic challenge, but a very playful one."
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Despite the difficulties of working with fire, Thockler said he was glad he took on the challenge.
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"When Victoria+Jean asked me to choose a track to work with, I was immediately blown away by the powerful energy of Why Won't You," he explained. "I wanted to do something I had never done before."
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