Santigold and her visual collaborator get into the BTS of her latest album vignettes in honor of Ockenfels' retrospective at Fotografiska.
was never really passionate about the motion picture. After over three decades of shooting celebrities like David Bowie and Kurt Cobain and combining his photographs with collage and painting, he understood his forté. But when the celebrated new wave pop starwould be the person.” Seeking an artist truly capable of capturing the transcendental spirit of the music, she reached out to Ockenfels at the suggestion of a former collaborator.
SANTIGOLD: I sure did. I have this as a GIF and I’m jumping and it’s literally the ascension that I was talking about. Then I started doing weird stuff, rolling my eyes back in my head like I was possessed. Part of what I had in my mind was that when I was little, my great-grandmother and my great aunt were part of this church in Baltimore. The church that my mom went to in Philly was really boring.
OCKENFELS: Yeah, we had to hire a water truck. We had to find a place to do it that we could flood, because the minute the hose starts going off, the water goes everywhere. And of course, in Los Angeles, wasting water is a big thing to people. You get a lot of people looking at you sideways.OCKENFELS: A little stream, and I’d go, “No, it’s got to knock her down.” We kept on arguing with the guy.OCKENFELS: We got to about 90 percent, because he wouldn’t go 100 percent.
OCKENFELS: We had to keep it really short, because there wasn’t much else place to go. You couldn’t do a master shot of sitting in the middle of the space because it would’ve given too much away. OCKENFELS: It was a lot of fun to shoot with you. We’re in this massive parking lot, and there was another music video being shot on the other end of the parking lot. Typical Downtown L.A. moment.OCKENFELS: We brought these huge playback speakers out and… Now understand, down the street is the Mongols, which is a biker gang, the Hell’s Angels. The other clubhouse was down the street. Then across the way, there was, I don’t know, there’s all these things in this neighborhood.
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