LV feat. Okmalumkoolkat - Spitting Cobra Music Video

So the second video for LV feat. Okmalumkoolkat is now out. The irony with this video is the fact that I shot it before the Sebenza video. We actually wanted to launch this one to introduce Okmalumkoolkat to the international scene and the drop the total madness in the Sebenza video, instead it came as a slow me downer after the fact.

Enjoy!

CT 2012

Behind the scenes: LV feat. Okmalumkoolkat music video by CUSS TV

Jamal Nxedlana who styled and art directed the Sebenza music video also managed to fit in a behind the scenes video which he posted up on CUSS TV.

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Okmalumkoolkat x LV - Sebenza Music Video

So for the past two months I have been working super hard on Directing my first music video. I had the pleasure of hooking up with Gervase Gordon from LV in december and have been chatting to Okmalumkoolkat from Dirty Paraffin about doing a project for ages. We decided to splice things up, I wanted to produce a video which was a culmination of my South African sub-culture photographic documentaries and get them to move in a scripted music video format.

We featured some very contentious cultures which are hitting the scene in South Africa, The Isikhothane's (recently featured on ETV in a very negative light), who battle for fashion, Spinning, where people meet up with hotted up cars on weekends and perform mad tricks to entertain crowds of people in public spaces and the new Primal Stof music scene lead by Dirty Paraffin. This video was for one half of Dirty Paraffin, Okmalumkoolkat and this is his second single to go out with LV following in the footsteps of the successful 'Boomslang' in 2010.

With tons of support from Miles Goodall who was the cinematographer on the video and his many contacts, including Media Films services who supplied us with the amazing Ari Alexa to shoot the video on and The Refinery who finished and colored the project (Thanks Terry Simpson, your amazing).

Many Thanks to Malcolm Che at Voltaire for making the cut as poignant and to the track as he did. Without him this video would never have been a success! 

I got to work and work with some amazing guys from Orange Farm and Everton townships South of Johannesburg including Sello Modiga who was our fixer and unit producer and a whole bunch of amazing performers who he helped connect me with.

Credits:
Directed by. Chris Saunders
Produced by. Olga Grigorova & Chris Saunders
Director of photography. Miles Goodall 
Edited by. Malcolm Che' (Voltaire)
Colorist. Terry Simpson (The Refinery)
Executive Producer. Linda Notelovitz 
Unit Producer. Sello Modiga 
Wardrobe and art direction: Jamal Nxedlana
1st Camera Assistant. Lee Goodall 
Grip. Tyler Geldenhuys
DIT. Frances VJ 
Stills Photography. Michael Magagane & Frances VJ
Camera & Grips Equipment sponsored and supplied by. Media Film Service (Johannesburg)

Okmalumkoolkat

So I know I have been super quiet on the blog. You know how december holiday time can consume all your time. But its the new year and Im feeling super inspired and here is my first update. Over the december period I have been DOP'ing my first feature length Documentary with Adrian Loveland and while down here I got to meet some amazing dudes.

One of my favorite experiences recently was getting to meet LV from Hyperdub records in London, he has been working with some amazing musicians down here and recording new songs with them. I shot a music vide with Okmalumkoolkat (Dirty Paraffin) and LV for a song aptly named Spitting Cobra following in light with their last big success Boomslang in 2010.

The video will be out soon, but for now I thought I would put up a new portrait of Smiso (Okmalumkoolkat) shot on location during the music video shoot.

Enjoy and Happy New Year !

Chris 2012