Sidewinder

Sidewinder

***1/2

Reviewed by: Angus Wolfe Murray

In the world of music video, there is no reality, only imagination.

Simon Dobson uses white, jagged, dancing sound waves across Fifties still life screens as a visual background for the rhythmic drum-and-base score. It is surprisingly inventive.

The pictures are of men and women at work. The machines, typewriters and office equipment are from another era, mostly black-and-white, but occasionally colour, as if hand painted.

Always, somewhere, the sound waves are responding to the music, which, eventually, becomes monotonous. At four minutes, it feels a little long, but never lacking in inspiration.

Reviewed on: 31 Jan 2004
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Music video uses sound waves to illustrate the rhythm of drum and bass.

Director: Simon Dobson

Year: 2003

Runtime: 4 minutes

Country: UK

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