Revolution 9 - Beatles Experimental Film

An experimental video inspired by countless hours listening to The Beatles song, Revolution 9, over and over again for weeks, both forwards and backwards.

It was driving me insane, but I knew THIS was the piece. I just had to crack it. Time was running out and I was short on ideas. The project was due the next day and it was already 11pm. I frantically started shooting scenes that came to mind - ones that I felt captured the paranoid, chaotic, compulsive, and schizophrenic emotions that the music inspired. All I could hope for was that the narrative would all come together in the end. I stayed up all night editing, fueled by caffeine and desperation. Shot the suicide scene the morning the project was due. It was the last shot, and undoubtedly the most terrifying. I took a leap of faith and this is the result.

A short film project that I conceptualized, shot & edited in one day, entirely by myself, during Fall 2004.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Beatles
• Revolution 9
• white album
• music video
• John Lennon
• Paul McCartney
• Yoko Ono
• backmask
• experimental
• student film
• short film
• fan
• abstract
• composition
• crazy
• intense
• compulsive
• schizophrenic
• horror movie
• director
• movie film

[GoodTripBoy]

Wonderful.

[DoNOTcallmeJulie]

I always thought that Revolution 9 was a chilling sounding song, and I think you did an excellent job bringing that scary feeling to film! Well done!