Lil Buck - Nowness
Director and photographer Jacob Sutton follows his cult NOWNESS piece LED Surfer, with a new spot featuring rubber limbed Lil’ Buck displaying his gravity-defying repertoire.
Director and photographer Jacob Sutton follows his cult NOWNESS piece LED Surfer, with a new spot featuring rubber limbed Lil’ Buck displaying his gravity-defying repertoire.
Sutton wanted to push the unexpected, and enlisted his father and electronics whiz John Spatcher to build a giant revolving wooden cube in a barn in the Cotswolds. “I wanted to make an environment that didn’t really conform to normal gravity,” explains the fashion image-maker. Taking inspiration from 2001 and Inception’s weightless scenes, the film pits Buck’s gyrations against those of the dynamic set, cleverly employing movement and distorted perspective, “I liked the idea of an internal space where you don’t really have any point of reference. It’s a natural way of doing special effects.”
The innovative, hypnotic short film that promotes everything that’s special about the director and photographers work, is set to breakout rap star Azealia Banks’ “Liquorice”. The film was graded by Rushes Denny Cooper and retouch and online of the film was undertaken by VFX artist Richie White.
Sutton wanted to push the unexpected, and enlisted his father and electronics whiz John Spatcher to build a giant revolving wooden cube in a barn in the Cotswolds. “I wanted to make an environment that didn’t really conform to normal gravity,” explains the fashion image-maker. Taking inspiration from 2001 and Inception’s weightless scenes, the film pits Buck’s gyrations against those of the dynamic set, cleverly employing movement and distorted perspective, “I liked the idea of an internal space where you don’t really have any point of reference. It’s a natural way of doing special effects.”
The innovative, hypnotic short film that promotes everything that’s special about the director and photographers work, is set to breakout rap star Azealia Banks’ “Liquorice”. The film was graded by Rushes Denny Cooper and retouch and online of the film was undertaken by VFX artist Richie White.
Director: Jacob Sutton
Producer: Grace Holbrook
Stylist: Tracey Nicholson
Make-Up: Hiromi Ueda
Camera Operator: Warren Buckingham
First Assistant-Director: Katrina More-Molyneux
Lighting Assistant: Jordan Grant
DIT: Claire Fulton – Spring Digital
Set Design: Jake Sutton & John Spatcher
Offline Editor: Julian Fletcher
Post Production: Rushes
Colourist: Simone Grattarola
Flame Work: Richie White
