Crooked Teeth (version one)
From Videoville
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Director: Ace Norton
Label: Atlantic
Year: 2006
This video is an homage to Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.
"It was crazy. We had the band there and we had like five animation stations there just doing the same thing. And stop-motion takes forever to shoot. The wrapping and unwrapping sequence took like two hours for each guy in Death Cab," Norton said. "They were awesome about the whole thing; definitely the easiest band I've ever worked with. We literally did one take with each bandmember, and that's all it took." [1]
"In the original treatment there was much less going on. The band loved the idea but we both agreed there could be more. I talked to Nick on the phone and he basically gave me total creative freedom. Based on that one conversation, I just let my mind go free. I brainstormed every wacky thing I possibly could. The stranger and more impossible it seemed, the more positively the band would react."
"My favourite video ever is Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, so naturally I've wanted to make something in that vein. Not a remake, but more of a 'tip of the hat'." [2]
