Beastie Boys - Root Down (1995)
*** (of four)
You'd think the Beastie Boys exhausted all their Ill Communication video-making energy with the Spike Jonze joints "Sabotage" and "Sure Shot." Their appearances in Evan Bernard's video for "Root Down" are limited to black-and-white concert performance footage, all basically from the same show with limited angles.
But what Bernard lacks, re: artist footage, he makes up for with rapid-fire stock clips - color and black-and-white, quickly cut and with the screen sometimes divided into horizontal and vertical twos, threes and fours. My favorite sequences involve New York subway map clip art and vintage funk/breakdancing.
There's also graffiti artists at work and less-germaine extreme sports footage of the snow- and skateboarding varieties. It's fun to watch, but it's one of those videos where, if you've seen the first two minutes, you've seen the entire thing.
You'd think the Beastie Boys exhausted all their Ill Communication video-making energy with the Spike Jonze joints "Sabotage" and "Sure Shot." Their appearances in Evan Bernard's video for "Root Down" are limited to black-and-white concert performance footage, all basically from the same show with limited angles.
But what Bernard lacks, re: artist footage, he makes up for with rapid-fire stock clips - color and black-and-white, quickly cut and with the screen sometimes divided into horizontal and vertical twos, threes and fours. My favorite sequences involve New York subway map clip art and vintage funk/breakdancing.
There's also graffiti artists at work and less-germaine extreme sports footage of the snow- and skateboarding varieties. It's fun to watch, but it's one of those videos where, if you've seen the first two minutes, you've seen the entire thing.
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