Comments on: roger ballen – die antwoord

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:56:13 +0000

thank you EVA!

By: eva

eva — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:57:16 +0000

Don’t know it this has been posted.. I Fink U Freeky: Behind the Scenes:

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:52:30 +0000

Sweet!!!!!

By: Thomas Bregulla

Thomas Bregulla — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:16:39 +0000

German TV picked it up:
http://www.aspekte.zdf.de/ZDF/zdfportal/web/ZDF.de/aspekte/2942102/22833658/1836e8/Schöne-Freakshow.html

By: Ross Nolly

Ross Nolly — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:03:20 +0000

Panos; Die Antwoord played here in NZ about 2-weeks ago….

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:49:28 +0000

“Ballen told me that he’s known the band members Ninja and Yo-Landi for years, and that he’s long wanted to make a video for them. “Unfortunately, they were living in Cape Town and I in Johannesburg, and as a result the logistics never seemed to have worked out,” he said. On New Year’s Eve, though, he took a photograph of Die Antwoord for the New York Times Magazine, and they decided to finally make it happen. Two weeks later, the video for “I Fink U Freeky” was in the can. “We started with my photographs for ideas and then mimicked them in the sets,” Ballen told me. “Most of the sets started with almost a ‘Roger Ballen still life’ and then expanded on the particular theme cinematically. In many aspects, a great work of cinema contains an abundance of powerful still images.”

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:45:24 +0000

When the photographer Roger Ballen’s video for “I Fink U Freeky,” by Die Antwoord, came out earlier this month, I watched it over and over again, amazed by how it brought his still images to life while also conveying the personality of the band. It got me thinking about other video collaborations between photographers and musicians, some of them surprising, others made by photographers who are prolific in the form. Here’s a selection of ten, all made by directors with large bodies of photographic work, along with comments from most of the artists.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/still-moving-photographers-music-videos.html

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:43:44 +0000

http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/video/2012/february/02/roger-ballen-directs-i-fink-u-freeky/

By: panos skoulidas

panos skoulidas — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:05:34 +0000

thank you Thomas!:)))))))

By: Thomas Bregulla

Thomas Bregulla — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:17:18 +0000

Roger Ballen, his work and this video is featured in the latest issue of Britsh Journal of Photography.
Since the access to the magazine from Germany is very difficult, I got the iPad version of the magazine.
A picture out of the video even made it to the title page.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/british-journal-of-photography/id444722617?mt=8

By: When Photographers Make Videos | detectiveswearglasses

When Photographers Make Videos | detectiveswearglasses — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:23:13 +0000

[...] Something I found on the Burn Magazine site. An American photographer who has been living in South Africa since the 1970s, Roger Ballen, [...]

By: Mike R

Mike R — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:09:11 +0000

The video is very slick, a lot of work has obviously gone into it.
I wouldn’t want to meet any of them down a dark alley.
Looks like a vision of hell.
Not so scary with no sound.

Charles, great photos!

Mike.

By: Akaky

Akaky — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:56:29 +0000

By: Frostfrog

Frostfrog — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:55:14 +0000

I hate to toot my own horn too loudly without reviewing and joining in the larger discussion, but right now I am traveling on my wife’s reservation, visiting family, at the same time as I am working to finish up my whale rescue series. I just made a post about how I got onto the Soviet icebreakers in defiance of the authority of the man President Reagan had give all authority to.

I think you might enjoy reading how that happened. I have three posts left to make in this series. For those not following, I invite to come along. In these remaining posts, you will see things you have never saw before and will not see even the hint of in the movie – Big Miracle – which, none-the-less, is a fun movie to watch but not to take seriously.

Today’s post:

http://bit.ly/xAb6Ix

David – we could try that Skype sometime in the next couple of days. Time is very hard for me right now, but it won’t get any easier for the next month and I don’t want to miss that Skype conversation with you.

By: Thodoris Tzalavras

Thodoris Tzalavras — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:12:38 +0000

Hey Gordon, I don’t disagree with any of the points you make in the first paragraph… however, I actually admire Rimbaud trying to practice his ideology…

To be clear, even though I find the message of their music appealing I’ve never been a big fun of punk music… so, I’m not defending Crass in particular… my reaction above was to your mention of “actual work”… it kind of sounded like “the man’s” point of view and not that of someone with an open mind (and a hippie background) to alternative lifestyles…

And yeah, the smartphone’s flashlight was a duh moment… thanks for looking :)

By: Gordon Lafleur

Gordon Lafleur — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:45:11 +0000

Thodoris

I love your idea for using your smartphone’s flashlight app as supplemental lighting in low light!

By: Gordon Lafleur

Gordon Lafleur — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:15:56 +0000

Thodoris
Not confused at all, I do lots of both kinds of work.

I suspect that they felt that they had to refused the money because it would have been hypocritical given their screaming anti-establishment anarchy stance. And also because Rimbaud clearly has independent means, and Steve was young, and idealistic. they were probably foolish to refuse the money, given that it would have either financed projects that they cared about, or made them wealthy like many of the sixties icons who railed against the establishment (Dylan, Guthrie, Baez etc.) Steve complains now about not getting any money from pirate t-shirt sales.

Where have all the angry young men gone asks Rimbaud. They grew up and left him behind in his quasi-utopian Dial House Never Never Land. If you want to see what real anarchy looks like, try living somewhere like Somalia.

Sorry to sound so cynical.

By: Thodoris Tzalavras

Thodoris Tzalavras — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:28:39 +0000

Charles, nice work man!

Gordon, please don’t confuse “actual work” with work for money… there are plenty of people who do amazing amounts of work without making a living out of it… also, if you re-watch the video you’ll see that at some point they were presented with the opportunity to monetize their work, but for their own reasons refused to do so…

By: Charles Peterson

Charles Peterson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:55:20 +0000

Thanks All. Yes, access. I won’t shoot a show any more unless I get to shoot the whole thing (for most of the photographers it’s usually the first three songs, at this show too). You do have to know how to behave when you are the only photog down in front. Try and be invisible yet right where the action is as well.

And,yes, the video, and live stills two entirely different things. No way could I ever do what Ballen does, and I kinda doubt he’d come away from a live show with the same goods as me. And of course without the music there’d be neither.

Best,

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:33:38 +0000

CHARLES

great access, great work!!

SYDNEY

not comparable, i am sure Charles would agree