The most expensive films ever made

Kim Blacha continues with her (probably un-publishable) scholarly analysis of the music video genre. She sees them as cultural artefacts, in the mode of Sam Taylor-Wood, rather than marketing packages designed to sell music. It is very impressive to watch her “deconstruct” a promotional video, always divorced from the sound, and put it back together according to interpretation (of society, never music), cinematic technique, zeitgeist etc.


Photograph of Jamelia in the video See It In A Boy's Eyes (photo of TV screen - all images on this site are original).

Latest to be taken apart has been Jamelia's See It In A Boys's Eyes (director unknown), which was filmed in Cuba using the Cuban Army as extras. She is also working on an analysis of Ben Adams' Sorry (Ben Adams is supposedly Britain's answer to Justin Timberlake) - the video is directed by Kevin Godley and filmed in Hackney (Kevin Godley's feature film The Cooler was shown at Cannes in 1982, and he directed the Channel 4 documentary The Day The Dream Died). In the pipeline for Kim's attention is Paradise's See The Light.

Whatever you might think of music videos, they represent a very lucrative industry, and minute for minute rate as the most expensive films ever made.