This is the music video for John Carpenter‘s Night.
Night is from John Carpenter’s debut album of non-soundtrack material, Lost Themes, out now on Sacred Bones.
Carpenter is the director and composer behind Halloween, Escape From New York, They Live, Assault on Precinct 13, and many films.
Here’s what video director, Gavin Hignight, has to say about the video:
Upon hearing ‘Night’ by John Carpenter, my head was instantly filled with these nighttime highway road dreamscapes. Someone or something, haunted, traveling the road alone in the late hours. Our goal was to take that feeling and put it into a video that paid tribute to the film work of Carpenter but at the same time gave him a new world to play in… in this case, literally through Virtual Reality.
Lost Themes is available in iTunes, at Amazon and other online retailers
why did it stop there?
Damm i cannot watch this video because of GEMA 🙁
Are you able to watch on Vimeo? https://vimeo.com/124846910
I don’t get it, are the robots digitally controlled analogz?
I usually love his work, but both sound and visuals are lacking direction and vision – which is kinda ironic considering. I take it this is the result of a halfwit director adding poor visuals to castoff unfinished dittos that never should have seen the light of day? Hignight and Carpenter clearly don’t get VR. If you wear a stereoscopic VR headset and you don’t move your head then it is just stereoscopic 3D – at least two people are complicate in that level of stupidity. And that off-the-self Huboptic mask is a poor practical effect, of student film quality – but all the same very suiting to the whole piece. I just hope this tribute is a deeply ironic post-modern satire that went right over my head, as my current musing is shambolic.
during the time late 85’s and mid 90’s all the movies were lowfi and low rez …but is was the idea that technology was going to be some thing more …
Escape From New York , is a classic
Johnny mnemonic had “VR” but the HMD was only a prop ..
i think John Carpenter understands VR ,, he just did his own take on it .
Not all 1985 to 1995 films were lofi and lo-rez. ’85 gave us Back To The Future, probably the most non-lofi film ever made, Brazil and The Color Purple. Then ’95 giving us Twelve Monkeys, Heat, Toy Story, Se7en, The Usual Suspects – and too much to mention inbetween. By the way, 1982 gave us Blade Runner, which this isn’t. Low budget films of that time were lo-fi, but that isn’t really a statement as much as it is a logical conclusion of the film production process then, pre- digital camera and affordable/seamless CGI. I thought both Escape From New York and Johnny Mnemonic were dystopian? Not really a statement on technology being something more, rather than technology being something less. Johnny Mnemonic is a very bad film, and I don’t see the relevance of discussing it here? Or the merit of discussing it anyplace, considering how bad a film it is. Escape from New York was very fresh for its time, but it hasn’t aged well, and wasn’t the most grown up thing in the first place – it is just The Hunger Games for pubescent boys with a confused sexuality – with a great soundtrack. I don’t think you can make a statement of him understanding VR from this poor music video, that he didn’t direct? As he didn’t direct this, it isn’t his own take on it – it is Gavin Hignight take on it. But it is shameful that Carpenter has tarnished himself by being aligned with such poor filmmaking skills, for a tune that is obviously a discard of the finest kind. It is actually offensive, as we live in a world flooded with audio/visual content, when talented people work hard to get the slightness bit of notice. And then you got a poor awful filmmaker riding on the name of a has-been grave dodger, using that to deliver a stale audio/visual fart. I don’t see how we can find merit in that? And the next time we look around at the world and think it isn’t really up to speed, at least you will know why – if we accept these lame standards, purely based on Artist’s previous work, then we asked for that world – you defined a world of low expectation. If you remove the name John Carpenter from this video, and instead it is some Random Joe online who’s discarded music is used and this Random Joe also stars in his own video, then we wouldn’t be discussing this here, because we wouldn’t be aware of it, because it wouldn’t be relevant, as it is poor and below acceptable standard for now, or then – it is just stupidly put together and badly made for any decade.
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Funny I loved every bit of it, I found it quite refreshing
Me too!
It’s better than all that scum from today music TV. This guy has style. Actually this is how music channel should look like.
Seriously good.
Can’t stop saying, “That’s a BIKE HELMET ON THAT GUY’S FACE!”