Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Remix) [Full 3 Screens HD]

[ReeceJackson]

I love how different all of Chris' projects are, I didn't expect anything like this after Rubber Johnny and his more recent videos; but this is something else. It's a shame this will probably be the only way I can watch the video, but I still felt as if I was there on the trains, becoming more lifeless as time dwindled by, it's a sad thing but also a relaxing and numb experience.

[ReeceJackson]

This is beautiful.

[Loumademe]

Unforgettable. Thank You.

[ArtistiCNagia]

<3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[eltorrogreggo]

....a unique mix of blues over a trip hop,drum&bass and movie soundtrack music.Always returning to this video odyssey created by Chris Cunningham.Gil Scott Heron and Chris. Hats down.

[tribalKoko]

*****

[BigBrotherWatching84]

tnx gill, tnx for everything...ur poetry was and still is revelation for me...and for me ur ar not dead, u ar still living through ur work.

p.s. fucking Belgrade is killing me 

[haribo687]

Full screen. Lights off.

[markpriss]

wow ... this is amazing i'm very impressed ... this is one of the directions of music that i like but not many do it ... if somebody does it than they have very few songs that has this kind of feel to their music ... that's sad ... that's why i wanna do this type of music

[Chrotisofus]

Wow.

[MsBickle76]

Normally people who have top comment get thumbs up and get funny comments back or something. I honestly tried to understand and ask people who feel strongly about this to help me practice seeing. Since i got sticked By the uploader I have had nothing but hate mail.

Not one person has PM me and honestly asked me for my opinions or a talk. Now i come back to see the video and my comment has been marked as "spam". Check 3rd "suggested" video on the right... Who uploaded it? When? Why?

[thgbyo]

@MsBickle76 I'm sorry your comment has been marked as "spam". Most of us here did not understand your position at first and this is probably the explanation for so many negative votes...

[morsea30]

This was one of the best video i ever seen, it's crazy it blends right into "Aphex Twin / Chris Cunningham - Flex

[VelCro8112]

WOW :) I wish they gave Chris Cunningham millions of dollars to make a movie of pure awesomeness!

[minusss666]

It sends shivers down my spine

[cassiusitsover]

It looks like New York killed Gil. =(

[iscdesign]

INCREIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[j0naslarss0n]

Each of my favourites in verbal and visual poets make one of the best video/music compilations of the urban hate/love concept I've ever seen. thank you all!!

[jAwhaaat]

beautiful

[Etlos1]

I just saw him live at Roskilde Festival, OMFG!

[spitfiregr]

this is epic

[hsarubin]

What do mean when you say, "I don't get it."? What are you expecting to get? There is no narrative, no story.

What do you feel, might be a better question to ask. Does make the music feel different to you? If not that's ok. BUT I do not think pieces like this are about getting it, as in understanding what he is saying or showing, but experiencing it. Sounds cheesy and a bit wanky, I know, but it seems to work for me.

[OldSkoolRava]

CC opened his show last night at the Sydney Opera House with this piece -truly epic!

[bingbong206]

Saw this at one of his show cases recently. Probably his best work in my eyes. Nice and simple, but effective.

[23roxstarr]

this was the first thing he played at his round house gig the other night. was hugely powerful on three huge screens and a very loud system. very atmospheric and an amazing opening piece to what can only be described as an amazing, mind bending and unique gig. cunnigham is a genious.

[jamesmitchellesquire]

@23roxstarr I was there. So haunting, wasn't it? Amazing.

[23roxstarr]

@jamesmitchellesquire yep.. very haunting... one of the strangest things ive ever seen on stage and one of the best also. what an expierence that night was!

[zresu1]

RIP

[ceryscake]

AMAZING! SUPERB! Emotionally strong! Magnifique!!!

[TheRobag81]

:( im so sad now.RIP Gil Scot

[JohnnyAbbateWasHere]

RIP

[chilly66666]

great, great, great video&song!

[r4ltman]

you know the feeling of being invisible? after a long day, where you feel no connection, you watch this, you won't feel as alone, you'll feel

[JoshuaWinkleman]

R.I.P. Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011). Thank you for your pioneering work. We love you for ever.

[TeteromPRS]

So poignant. The rush and hussle and bussle and then Gil Scott-Heron resigned, mute and gradually resting towards the end.

This video really captured the song.

Want to see this in a bigger space.

[frestootnik]

RIP you legend. thanks for the genius....

time to go home and slow down in Jackson, Tennessee.

[badboyrhythmdub]

RIP Gil Scott Heron. Another Hero gone.

[jjooyyll]

This is art because it represents reality in such a way the the participant begins to fear that it has become their reality and there is no escape. Wow.

[Gluston]

RIP...



[AndresFouche]

RIP Gil Scott Heron, You've inspired me.

This is such a great track and video,

big up Chris Cunningham!

[sweatpants1212]

Very 'Akira.' I always liked that sound and I like what people have been doing with it lately. The blues is a great idea. You wouldn't happen to be the guy that made that fake Tron Legacy soundtrack would you?

[cassone2007]

Cunningham edited the ish out of this. Wicked!

[paustecri]

RIP. This video just became the most perfect, haunting swan song since Johnny Cash's 'Hurt'.

[dunkyvid]

rest in peace Gil

[shadyjohnson1]

R.I.P Gil.

[bivmvideo]

R. I. P.

[fgonzalez646]

Peace be with you, Gil. You were a prophet in life and your art - as this work hauntingly foresees

.

[Devilsblood]

RIP, I love your music

[irisjaye]

RIP, Gil. Thank you for everything you gave us.

[HernanCorera]

GIL REST IN PEACE. THANKYOU

[dertbox]

Rest in peace, Gil. Thanks for the soul and vision.

[SinnamonS]

RIP You will be missed

[ned900]

go with the flow, and windowlicker were my favorite two vids before i saw this.

im in awe, its amazing.

[4juxtapose4]

word. i want to go home

[simmy3000]

I wish an experimental risk taking art director would collaborate with him on a Sci fi classic, it's about time someone made a gritty, thought provoking Sci fi, which is an incredible audio visual experience. that's all I wish for

[minusss666]

It's about getting goosebumps while listening to this and watching the video. I can't explain it any simplier

[cbeaks123]

Wow. Just wow.

Cunningham is genius. So original.

It's hard to tell which came first, the music or the video.

[haribo687]

When's Cunningham gonna get his shit together n make a movie?

[MsBickle76]

i didn't get it... can somebody anybody explain? really, i mean in a totally open and heart felt way. non troll! but why is this so good? why is this art???

[thgbyo]

@MsBickle76 @Devilsblood That's hard to explain. Art is something that take us to a higher state. It's all about feeling good, being amazed with it. Just read the previous comments and you'll undertand what I mean. However, what is good for me may not be good for you... Wish you could feel this way watching this great video.

[MsBickle76]

@thgbyo i just don't get it... but i like him! Chris Cunningham is fucking amazing! i love him! but i just don't understand what is so good or compelling about this... why 3 screens though? 127 hours did something similar with 3 screens at the same time. very interesting.

he is working on his very first movie right? i can't wait for what Cunningham comes up with for his very first movie! it will be amazing!

[TelevizorPro]

@MsBickle76

where did you find that he is working on his movie?

[MsBickle76]

@TelevizorPro ohh! ok i understand but yeah! if you check his wikipedia he has his own indie thing:

" He has since left Warp Films to set up his own production company 'CC Co' to produce his films independently."

so yeah! soon we will get to see an all original idea of his, his own full/real project. i don't know what he is working on, but now we know that he is making a movie! even if he is in his basement working on it or something soon we will find out what it is! i cant wait for his real mov

[thgbyo]

@MsBickle76 He's been workin as a VJ too. He always uses 3 screens in his projections. This video is part of his performances and you can find a lot of this videos as a VJ on Youtube. I read a long time ago that he was working on a film, but concrete information about him is very hard to find. I read about him planning to releasing something new this year but... who knows?

He is making his own music too and I just found he contributed with the original mix of this track, not only the remix.

[HernanCorera]

@MsBickle76 he is dying you can tell by the lyrics. The video is a metaphorical view of his spirit leaving his body....rising up and coming back to earth again (reencarnation).. the subway represents the monster veins...

[martinwaldmeier]

@MsBickle76 I'm not saying whether this is art or not, to me it's a music video. But probably the best one I have ever seen. Look at the perfect fusion of image and sound. It is as if the the image plays the music, and vice versa. I am sure you can see that the video is created out of samples that are arranged in similar way as is music. This creates an almost hypnotizing mood ... dark, cold, repetitive, mechanized, disturbing. And then the beautiful & warm voice in contrast. Simple & powerful

[badboyrhythmdub]

@MsBickle76 All I can tell you is personally for me it simply looks good and sounds good. Which is what art (be it music or film or images) should do. I guess people who like pop music and videos feel the same way about that, but i like this, nothing more nothing less.

[mojokiss]

@MsBickle76 because. it needs no explanation.

[01dax]

@MsBickle76 -it's academic question which doesn't fit here. It's like David Lynch movies. I can't describe what I feel when I watch them with words, I just know I'm overwhelmed with the atmosphere and have keep watching with no reason.

[01dax]

I would say that thgbyo explained it in a good way: it is something what takes you to higher state.

State or place where I feel that everything is happening for a reason and I'm connected to everything around me. This brings me feel of calmness, harmony and self-balance. Why? My guess is that this is what awaits us after death, but sometimes you can reach this state even during your life. It is just matter of your nature how much you can feel it with intensity, how often and how long...

[JohnnyAbbateWasHere]

@MsBickle76 Try to watch it at night with headphones, in full screen, and in the darkness of your room. Try to get lost in it and try to feel what Gil Scott is telling to you. Not always art can be understood in the morning, or on the white background of Youtube. After you tried that, let me know if something changed

[jamescat1]

@MsBickle76 totally understand where you are coming from. Its like david Lynch films, I dont always know for sure whats going on, but sometimes I trust art just to make me feel a certain way. And if it makes me feel good it cant be bad right? sometimes that isnt about explanation, its about emotion. arty farty I know- but how else can we explain david lynch brother hahaha

[winterblink]

@MsBickle76 i watched the "performance" on meltfestival 2010 - it was played as the last track, after all the "attack" stuff and the "disturbing" videos c.h. made. just goose bumps. you can't get the feeling for this by just watching a compressed video fullscreen at home. this was displayed on 3 huge(!) screens (mainstage).

[robbrandon]

@MsBickle76 I Think this is kind of hard to 'Get' on youtube. i know filmmaker Chris Cunningham f*cking hates the fact that people are watching it on youtube. Originally it was a gallery piece on three big seperate screens, I never got to see it in the gallery. I really like this video but i know it would be a thousand times more absorbing if i got to view it how it was intended to be viewed.

love the sounds though, amazing remix, does anyone know if cunningham is gonna release anymore music?

[robbrandon]

@MsBickle76 I Think this is kind of hard to 'Get' on youtube. i know filmmaker Chris Cunningham f*cking hates the fact that people are watching it on youtube. Originally it was a gallery piece on three big seperate screens, I never got to see it in the gallery. I really like this video but i know it would be a thousand times more absorbing if i got to view it how it was intended to be viewed.

love the sounds though, amazing remix, does anyone know if cunningham is gonna release anymore music?

[MrBillybonka]

@MsBickle76 ... Do we even need to go there

[robjabbaz]

@MsBickle76 haha. you ARE being a troll... just an impressively passive aggressive one.

[robjabbaz]

@MsBickle76 @MsBickle76 haha. you ARE being a troll... just an impressively passive aggressive one.

[dubqnpdk]

@MsBickle76 Trainride home.

[dreamcrusher5]

@MsBickle76 Art is life. Life is art.

[ricketydoodah]

@MsBickle76 that kind of depends on your definition of what art is...

[PerroColla]

@MsBickle76 I belive my friend, that the true question would be,¿What you consider art, or video art?. If you can awnswer to that question first, or give an example of any form art in video, i can asure you, that more than one person would be able to answer your question.

[shaayned]

@MsBickle76 its amazing how people like you have the ability to write comments on videos like this, makes me reconsider my zombie Apocalypse survival plan.

[shaayned]

I'm not meaning/trying to generalize I just see comments like yours on YouTube all the time and it's making me passionately aggressive.

[sikapena]

@MsBickle76 you're too old and tired.

[angrytrollvids]

@MsBickle76 why was this marked as spam? Can't a motherfucker share her opinion?

I mean, its a stupid opinion no doubt, and slightly rude. If she had even the slightest appreciation for film she might get it.... but its her right to have that opinion shared with others.

The light and dark was matched with surgical precision as is the motion in all three cameras. It's art because it took a lot of effort and everything had a purpose that may have gone over your head.

[angrytrollvids]

@angrytrollvids and I'd like to add... Cunningham might be our generations Kubrick, if the guy wasn't such an insane mess that only released videos every so often.

[MsBickle76]

@angrytrollvids Normally people who have top comment get thumbs up and get funny comments back or something. I honestly tried to understand and ask people who feel strongly about this to help me practice seeing. Since i got sticked By the uploader I have had nothing but hate mail.

Not one person has PM me and honestly asked me for my opinions or a talk. Now i come back to see the video and my comment has been marked as "spam". If people's opinions are different it doesn't make them

[angrytrollvids]

@MsBickle76 I'm sorry for being a dick.

It's just hard. the internet is snide, often. I responded aggressively but in all truth... that was my opinion.

His work is shocking, that isn't what makes it beautiful. The atmosphere of this video is darker than anything in Come to Daddy. He remixed the song, to match his visual style,

Watch the Social Network, and how well the visuals work with the Reznor score. Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey for atmosphere. Watch Terrence Malick. Explore ambiance.

[MsBickle76]

@angrytrollvids I am a fan of David Fincher, so i did see The Social Network. Reznor's score was very well done. I get it. Chek the 3rd video on the "Suggested" section, see who uploaded it. I also has Reznor facebook music...

[angrytrollvids]

@MsBickle76 So I'm baffled. Maybe you just haven't let this sink in yet. Didn't you enjoy the choice to keep his face dark, only the sparse lighting? Does it seem like a guy down on his luck singing in the subway station? There's a lot of ambiguity here that is just begging to have your imagination fill in the blanks.

[SleeplessCiti]

@MsBickle76 have you ever ridden the subway or lived in NY? it's dark, it's bleak, it's dirty, it's quiet. The only sounds come from grating steel and footsteps. there's nothing to look out to, just flashes of light as you pass from station to station. Some people never adjust to the crowds or the amounts of time traveling from one short distance to another. For some there's no charm to that hustle, just fatigue. I think the visuals depict that experience. Heron drives it home with his song

[jafafah0ts]

@SleeplessCiti Thats how I felt commuting home at nights on BART across the bay at like 10:30 PM. Felt like being lost in time. Indoor stations were white echoing tombs. Elevated stations were a platform with bright lights suspended in endless empty black.

Felt like you were in a place away from everything. Come loose, stepped into a wormhole, detached from time.

You can lose parts of yourself and never get them back.

[mskmadison]

@MsBickle76

"why is this art???" That's a big question. You can take years and years of schooling and read hundreds of books to try to answer that question. In my opinion, don't over think it. Art is simply any form of creative expression.

"but why is this so good?"

Art is only "good" if it means something to you. I consider this music video the best of the best. I get goosebumps every time I watch it. If you're not moved, then it's not good to you. As simple as that.

[Devilsblood]

Why is it that this video can be so gritty and dark. I feel like when I hear this song, I'm isolated from the world and distant from everything thats living. Its a great video and well thought out.

[KRIEGSSCHULE]

Please lewelyn let us doin like this

[Mannex17]

cities are heartless mechanizations

[cassiusitsover]

Will a CD or DVD be made of this beauty?

[meandyoucinema]

THIS IS THE BEST EVER REMIX in the world!!!!

[JonnoHagger]

Awesome!

[Devilsblood]

This is the mood I felt when living in the city.

[dubqnpdk]

still best track i ever heard

[HernanCorera]

PIECE OF ART

[narsti]

Not many things have this much atmosphere. Proper.

[claus4]

Wow in Hd its much better ! Incredible