Radiohead - Pyramid Song

Radiohead: Pyramid SongDirector: ShynolaSynopsis: The story of the video is based on Thom's dreams: "'Thom Yorke sent us a very disjointed couple of paragraphs about a dream he'd had about lights in the sky and a load of survivors floating in an aircraft carrier after an unhnown disaster or event and we took our inspiration from that,' explains Shynola's Jason Groves. 'lt was quite evocative, and it sort of set the mood for the whole promo.'"A guy 'jumps into the river' from the top of a skyscraper. The whole world has drowned and hes the only survivor. Underwater he sees 'all the things he used to see'. He finds his way to his old home and tidies up a bit. He sits in his favourite chair and lets go of the oxygen cord and the camera follows it as it whips up to the surface, leaving him down there to drown. In the end of the video the camera follows lights flashing in the sky - going out one by one.There was an underwater scene of different countries' flags that for some reason got edited out of the final cut.Here's what the video directors Shynola had to say about the video (from Pulse Of The Twin Cities):"Eventually Shynola worked their way into the opportunity of a lifetime—when they directed the video for Radioheads Pyramid Song.The Pyramid Song video pushed us to the limits of our abilities at the time, says Chris. We were just four kids in our bedrooms and we were making things up as we went along.The video landed Shynola their first NME BRAT award in 2002 for Best Video and all members of Shynola feel strongly about the work they did.From a personal, working point of view Pyramid Song stands out because we worked terrifically hard on something where we aimed beyond our abilities and actually came out with a very pleasing result, says Kenny. It was a very enjoyable time making that video and these days I find myself trying to recreate such enthusiasm in myself."Available on the U.S. Knives Out single.

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Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
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