Pink Laundrette:
The Video
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The images which
follow are extracted from the near-finished animated video for the epic track
‘Pink Laundrette’, of which roughly seventy-five per cent of the 9 mins and 15
seconds duration has been edited. The track itself is not quite finished, but
the timecode remains the same, and so there will be no problem in synching up
audio and video streams.
Art for Art’s sake, or a potential cult classic? Whichever way, what we
have so far is certainly not bland, or lacking in imagination. Most sequences
are entirely computer-generated, although there is some original still artwork
involved, and some shots were put together using a mini-set. Not all of the
real-life clips were shot in Paris: we found the washing-line sequences in downtown
Marseille, the monochrome ‘riots’ sequences featuring bridges over the Seine
are actually abstractions of fireworks on the Danube, which we shot in Budapest
in 2003, and the ’68 Paris bus in authentic livery was actually captured on
film in Bucharest, 2003 as we were shooting neon sequences for another video.
The ‘roulette’ clip was shot in
