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What’s the best music video you’ve seen recently and why?
A$AP Rocky - HELICOPTER directed by Dan Streit.
I am such a fan of those PlayStation 2 graphics, and I love that it’s unapologetically anti-AI.
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What’s the first music video you remember being impressed by?
It’s not technically a music video but a musical scene from the 1964 Czech film Lemonade Joe. It is a campy parody of the American Western and honestly the whole movie is totally music video coded. It has everything.
My favourite practical effect to this day happens in the saloon where the bad guy finishes his drink and just casually eats the whole glass. The premise is wild too since it focuses on a clean-living gunfighter taking on a town of whiskey-drinking cowboys to push a soft drink called Kolaloka
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And what’s your all-time favourite music video?
Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice.
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What other directors/artists do you look to for inspiration?
For visual inspiration, I would definitely point to Juraj Herz. I love his movie The Cremator, but also his version of Beauty and the Beast. It has this horror gothic twist on the classic piece that moves it very far away from a typical fairytale story.
What are you listening to at the moment?
Listening to The End from the new A$AP Rocky album. Also back on Linkin Park and Mac Miller.
What’s your favourite bit of tech, whether for professional or personal use?
Definitely my analogue Seiko. It tells the time and nothing else, which I love.
That mindset carries over to the way I approach post. Where I can, I try to do things in-camera because I love the process of figuring it out. It’s a challenge, sure, but I love the impact on the crew and actors when everyone works together to nail it and you see the result right away. When everyone knows we have to get it right, it creates this magical atmosphere.
What artist(s) would you most like to work with and why?
I’ve followed A$AP Rocky since I was a kid and I still look to him for inspiration every time he releases a new project.
There’s a certain timeless quality to his sound. With Fred again.. it’s about the energy and the way he’s building a real community around his work. I absolutely love his live sets.
Tell us one thing about yourself that most people won’t know…
I’m an only child and I was a bit bored growing up in the Czech Republic. Movies were a huge part of those early years. I would rewatch my favourites obsessively. Even when I was very small I memorised them entirely and would say the lines out loud just before the characters did. Super annoying for everyone else but fun for me.
Since most of our movies were taped off TV we had to manually pause the recording during commercial breaks. It was hard to time perfectly so my dad would sometimes accidentally record the last commercial in the block. For me, that astray commercial became part of the movie itself because I watched the tape so many times.
To this day I still remember those ads and the specific products in them. It’s as if they belonged in the film all along… And now becoming a filmmaker in the commercial industry feels like something of a full circle moment.
