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The Immortal video...
Hello everyone,
We are very excited about the video, as it shows some real live energy of the band! There arealso some great clips of our fans having a good time in the audience. The video footage was shot mostly by me and some friends on different stages in in South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Japan, and New York.
When I was in Argentina, I needed to buy more Super8 cartridges, so I looked up the Internet for the film distributor. I found one phone number and address, and called them and took a cab there. It turns out that this address is in an apartment building, 4th floor and there is this one guy, who is running his own small production company and they are distributing Super8s in Argentina. We got to talk and I tell this guy to come to our show with his girlfriend, and actually he turned out to shoot our concert on my camera... Great fun! And in the town almost no one spoke English so the whole thing was kind of an absurd lucky strike...
In Tokyo Japan, I received a camera (a Nikon r25 Super8mm) from this guy who was selling it on eBay. I had bought 2 cartridges of film earlier and decided to hit the riverside where I saw some homeless people the day before and their small "cabins" and tents. The whole place was kind of exciting, weird, sad and touching. These people were cooking their noodles on the pavement by the riverside, watching TV with stolen electricity, spending their time chatting and drinking away... someone had their laundry all organized and neat outside their tent, which was built out of canvas and chipboard...
In South Africa we got to visit some townships. We also went to Nelson Mandela's home and took some footage of some local kids... the life is quite different there... imagine a small hut, built out of metal plates, the floor is just the earth, the size is 2 meters x 2 meters, it's 35 Celsius degrees in the sun, you try to take care of 3 kids and cook a meal... just witnessing all this is quite heavy... we played 3 shows there on a touring festival, Metallica was the headliner and we got to meet Lars U. and James H.!
In Mexico we had this legendary helicopter ride, leaving from downtown Mexico City and ending up next to a parking lot of Aztecas Stadium somewhere in the infinite suburbs of the city. We played 3 songs there in front of 80 500 people, one crazy feeling to walk on the stage and all the adrenaline...
There is also some footage of New York in the video, I shot it in 1998 when I was there on a holiday trip, the Twin Towers were obviously still there and New York was still exciting and a feel-good...
The feeling of Super8 material is so different to anything else... somehow the light just behaves different compared to video and to wider films, there's something very emotional and magical about super8 film.
Hope you like the video!
Eero
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