Stuart Page: On making music videos...

Interview – 2009

Director, photographer and Axemen drummer Stuart Page has made 40+ music videos. Page has directed clips for Superette, The Clean, and The Skeptics’ infamous AFFCO. In 2009 he won Best Feature Documentary and Emerging Filmmaker at the DocNZ International Film Festival for Shustak, his portrait of American photographer Larence Shustak.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Page talks about:

The themes behind the clip for Superette's 'Killer Clown'
The set for the music video, and the ensuing shambles
The initial impetus for making the Skeptics' controversial 'AFFCO' video
Where and how the opening scenes were shot
The visit to the abattoir and the incredible story of how these scenes were realised
The reaction to the clip

This video was first uploaded on 5 June 2009, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview - James Coleman. Camera and Editing - Leo Guerchmann

When I first used to go and see The Skeptics play, just out of the darkness would just come this industrial kind of sound. It just used to put the hairs up on on the back of my neck, because they used to play AFFCO first up quite a lot. And I just sort of got to love that song; it kind of had this combination of scariness and power. So I asked them if I could make a video for the song, and they hadn't even recorded it at the time.
– Stuart Page on how he ended up making the controversial AFFCO music video

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