Karmacoma
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Producer: Nick Morris
Filming Location: County Hall, London, UK
Date of Filming: 8th - 11th November 1994
Video Length: 04:15
This was the first promo music video Jonathan Glazer would direct. After a successful music video career of directing such bands as Radiohead and Blur, he would leave promo videos behind and begin a successful film career before returning to promo video directing after a hiatus of nearly six years in 2006 by directing Massive Attack’s Live With Me.
The video for Karmacoma references many famous Hollywood horror films most noticeable “The Shining”.
The name of the actor in the video who is typing the word “Karmacoma” repeatedly with the missing “K” is Daniel Tatarsky. You can read his profile at the IMDB by clicking here.
Karmacoma is considered to be the first example (of many pop promo videos to come), to use dialogue and sound effects throughout the video to tell a story.
Some scenes in the video for Karmacoma were censored when shown on TV promoting the single release at the time. These scenes (or shots) were - the man standing on the bed with the big pointed piercing in his tongue, the dark-haired woman getting a nose bleed, the gunman’s duplicate pointing the gun at himself and the man covered in oil slowly removing his finger out of his navel. All of these cuts were restored on the video that appears on Eleven Promos.
3D about working with Jonathan Glazer - “We had seen some of his stuff he had done in advertising and he came recommended and obviously we just really got on with him and we talked about films, which is the most important thing to reference really for us. We don’t really normally go into songs with a complete vision of a video or a trailer for it as we don’t normally write that way. Most things come about in the studio in quite a haphazard or an abstract way. You don’t think about as a picture or a story, so you don’t necessarily have a story in terms of the visuals to go with it. So it was good to meet someone who has references you can relate to and vice-versea. And with Jonathan that was the case, really.” [Mirrorball TV Documentary - November 1999]
3D about the director Jonathan Glazer - “We met up with Jonathan Glazer who was doing ads at the time and Karmacoma was his first venture into doing promo videos. Obviously he’s directing movies like Sexy Beast and Radiohead videos now.” [The Raft - November 2001]
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Duration: 04:16
File Size: 31.7MB
187
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Duration: 00:38
File Size: 5.64MB
Notes: This clip was taken from the 1997 film “187″. It is the Bumper Ball Dub of Protection and not the original album version. This version of the song also appears on the soundtrack album for “187″.
Sleeper Cell
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Duration: 01:16
File Size: 6.71MB
Notes: This clip was taken from an episode of the TV drama “Splinter Cell”. It is specifically from the episode “Intramural”, which was eight episode of the first season.
Lycavitos Hill, Athens, Greece - 14th July 2003
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Duration: 04:58
File Size: 43.1MB
Notes: This is an example of how Karmacoma was performed live on the 2003 tour.
Exit Festival, Nova Sad, Serbia and Montenegro - 1st July 2004
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Duration: 05:02
File Size: 25.4MB
Notes: This is an example of how Karmacoma was performed live on the 2004 tour.
Townhouse Studios, London, UK - 4th September 1995
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Duration: 03:05
File Size: 27.3MB
Notes: This is a video recorded in the studio at the time Fake The Aroma (an alternative version of Karmacoma) was recorded.
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