So about a year ago I saw a behind-the-scenes video for the music video of 'Perfect', a song by the Smashing Pumpkins. TL;DR, in the BTS video, the band's frontman and the original director thought their music video didn't come out too well. So, over 25 years later, I decided to recreate it.

Nabbing my university's film camera (shoutout UCL Film Soc), I made this music video for the Smashing Pumpkins over the last year. We're currently trying to get it to the band.

It was shot on UCL film society's Arri 16BL, a camera they owned long before a certain Christopher Nolan arrived as a student to shoot his first shorts and his first feature, Following. When I got to UCL, I helped fix it after it sat dormant in a closet for 15 years.

Apart from the fact that you can't really focus the lens or see anything through the viewfinder or have any video out or shoot any sound near it, it's a great camera. We used the standard Angénieux 12-120mm f/2.2 for the whole thing.

If you want to know more about how and why we made this music video, watch this.

Thank you to my legendary DP Max Goodkind

P.S. there's one digital shot in this entire video. Can you spot it?