Cold Beverage

From Videoville

artist: G. Love And Special Sauce
director: Mark Romanek
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year: 06.94

treatment

g. love and the band are set-up, busking-style, outside of a somewhat rundown, downtown luncheonette.

we are in a time warp – half mid 60’s / half mid 90’s. the main visual influences will be the gritty photographs of danny lyon, robert frank, and bruce davidson.

the film (16mm black & white) will have a beautiful, silvery, somewhat grainy documentary look. we will shoot (hand-held) with bolex cameras and schneider lenses. (the sears silvertone guitar has that retro sound. the schneider lenses have that retro look.)

the luncheonette is in a seedy, visually “poetic” part of town. everything is hot and sweaty. we see the sweat dripping off of g. love in slo-mo. vagrants, trannies, junkies, punks, etc. hang out. cute girls sell lemonade. guys show off their hot-rod rides. old-timers sit at their regular booth drinking coffee. the waitress seems beleaguered. the old cook digs the tune.

the right guitar, the right amp, the right clothes, the right cars, the right faces, and – perhaps unavoidably – all sorts of refreshing cold beverages will be on display.

we’ll capture an exuberant perfect performance (recorded analog on site with vintage mics) full of that casual summer energy.

never literal, never slick. deeply impressive while never trying hard to impress. the video will capture an urban summer dream – a perfect g. love moment in time.

© mark romanek / satellite films / 06.94