Consoul (Lasse Gjertsen 2009)

Youtube aka Google finally decided to extend their 10 minute limit to compete with Hulu, and I can finally upload the film that I might consider my best work yet, and definitely my most personal film. It is my first real professional short, and was produced by Alligator AS in Bergen, Norway.

It is basically my first attempt of videographic shamanism. It is a story about a persons life and death told in 8-bits video game graphics.

I made it in about half a year together with my best friend Trygve Knudsen, who made the 3D-sequences. I made all the 8-bit-shit :) We worked on and off with it from February 2008 and completed it in January 2009. It has been screened at a bunch of film festivals all over the planet, and is originally made for 35mm film with surround sound (kicks in during the 3D-sequences). Therefore it might be perceived as being a bit sloooow, but fuck you and your internet attention span in that case :p

The 8-bit stuff is designed in Photoshop and animated with After Effects. I downloaded emulators for Amiga, Sega, Nintendo and so forth and had to play a shit load of games to look at the graphics and game play for inspiration. It was pretty sweet to get paid for that :) The music is composed with FL Studio.

There are a lot of references to people and movies, and not to mention; video games, that have contributed inspiration wise, and if you turn on annotations, you'll get it all revealed :)

You can download a shortened version of the soundtrack from http://www.nrk.no/Urort/Artist/lassegg (Lytt til = Listen to, Last ned = Download)

Enjoy!

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[kinkyjelly]

Did he really have to drive to his job?

[Scritergetamped]

E-P-I-C.

[aperompesleiker]

Gta?

[gyurmarajzfilm]

we love it. And sometimes we listen only the music, coz the music is så coool:)

[Killerkl]

C12H17N2O4P xD

[Sm311yBaT]

:O he forgot to flush the toilet!

[BillHicks420]

Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Henry Rollins, Terence McKenna, George Carlin, Richard Dawkins. MY HEROES. WHAT SORCERY IS THIS? Cool to know that someone from Norway also share the same interests.

[clipophile]

I can't stop watching this...

[swayarrow]

this is critically amazing

[Bitmog]

Er det et spill?

[Metalomaniac16]

Beautiful. There's no need for words nor complexity to explain something as awesome, awful and simple as life. Great short. I totally liked it.

[Jokkboy97Ps3]

Dette her var kult, Telefonen min ringte kl 10.00 samtidig som videoen stoppet på 10:00 og så ringte deg på døren! This here was cool, my phone rang at 10.00 while the video stopped at 10:00 and then called you at the door! Give Me A Like For This Cool Shit*?