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Enter the Void via a typographic storm

Music Video / Film, Type / Typography

Posted by Mark Sinclair, 16 September 2010, 13:36    Permalink    Comments (18)

Alarmingly frazzled from watching Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void this morning, it's well worth checking out the equally relentless, typographic onslaught that opens the film...

The sequence begins with a no-holds-barred flash through the entirety of the film's crew, but really kicks in at about one minute when the names of the cast are introduced.

Brilliantly it manages to use an enormous selection of type and graphics, with even the corporate logos of various film bodies and sponsors becoming part of the vibrant collage of words. The typography and sequence design was created by Paris-based designer and director, Tom Kan.

The intro hints at the schizophrenic nature of the characters who inhabit a claustrophic, drug- and sex-fuelled vision of Tokyo, while also reflecting the unrelenting neon light that encases the city in the film.

Oh and the fact that Noé's story – which follows the life, death and bleak spiritual journey of its main character Oscar – is also a dizzying, psychedelic, arresting, infuriating, melodramatic 135 minutes of craziness.

The film's digital effects team was led by Pierre Buffin of BUF Compagnie, while Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter was sound effects director.

Enter the Void opens at UK cinemas on September 24. The trailer is here.

18 Comments

Whoa! Very cool! This is better than most music videos out there. Good work and thanks for sharing.
Mondo
2010-09-16 15:04:58


you rock... going to be a big hit ...congrats
Mark
2010-09-16 15:33:00


It's a great animation and amazing typefaces but I do worry about the amount of flashing going on. Did the designer consider people with epilepsy?
Jimmy Mac
2010-09-16 17:09:48


Brief:
Use every single filter you possibly can in one single two minute opening title please.

Pretty full on, I like it.
Chris
2010-09-17 12:00:35


While it is striking as a pure visual, it has no value as something to read, so apart from it's visual content, it seems to shoot itself in its own foot.
Skipper
2010-09-17 13:18:12


Were some of it I find to be rocking for the type... the flashing for 60 second up front was annoying as HELL and if there wasn't a note below to say that at 60 second it would get better, you lost my attention.

T.
Tim
2010-09-17 14:13:58


Like staring into the eyes of the hypno-toad.
Paul
2010-09-17 14:16:15


Love it can't wait for the film.
Nick Carter Freelance
2010-09-17 15:40:17


Breaks so many rules it should be brilliant but somehow it's not. It' just another triumph of anarchic design over function snce i can't recall a single name I saw there apart from that last 'NOE'!
Yorkshire Lad
2010-09-20 08:07:31


Great introduction to the film
Alex
2010-09-20 16:34:50


Looks already like a cult film in the making. Some will love it others just hate it. I will take the loving part. No holds back that's for sure.
Winkelfehlsichtigkeit
2010-09-20 19:08:49


Someones gone photoshop filter overload on this! While it goes against my very being to indulge in phtoshop filterism thesedays, this is just outrageous! It fits with the film style, like an LSD fuelled binge night out (oh those were the days!)
This style could well be taken up by the US military to interrogate detainees with, instead of blasting Britney Spears, they will employ Alex Droog type techniques and put this on a loop............
Total design terrorism, I like it.
Nik.C
2010-09-23 11:49:36


How to begin...
I´ve watched this movie because I read a review in the newspaper about it. There I read that it was a very dark movie indeed, the boy gets killed and his spirit lifts up and oversees Tokyo and everything that still has ties with it´s passed life. The brother had promised the sister never to leave her side, and even coming back from the dead to still be with her. He would never leave her alone. The review came with this gloomy picture of brother and sister sitting on the grass.
I was intrigued by the picture of this brother and sister and thus I really wanted to see this movie.

I entered the theatre, also managed to get a friend to tag along, and the movie began.
After about ten minutes after the boy died, it lost my attention completely.
All the flickering lights, the endless flying above Tokio, with the city skyline and everything. I guess it´s pretty easy shooting a 2,5 hour movie if you do it like that. All the flickering, the crazy photoshopped weirdness and the flying above Tokio (we get it...Tokyo is a city with sparkling lights, whoopee.), that all together would probably last 1,5 hour alone!
And then all the sex...I swear to god, this is just another porn movie. Unbelievable

It was the worst 2,5 hours I´ve ever spend in a movie theatre and it makes me sad just the think about the time I´ve wasted.
And it´s such a shame, because the storyline is really great, and it could´ve been really great. But now me and my friend had spend those hours wishing and hoping for that soul to find a place (a womb) to reincarnate in already!

But I guess you have to like this sort of thing to enjoy it...
Cindy
2010-09-26 20:00:26


OH MY GOSH.... This movie sucks!!! I want my money back!

"Okay, what should we do today?
Well, let's make a horrible, terrible, awful movie!
And let's try to make other people watch it!"

It's sad to say...... but they have succeeded..

This director doesn't get my vote.
Willemijn
2010-09-27 19:39:41


one of the best movies i've ever seen in my life. changed my perspective on everyday reality.
gabe
2010-10-03 21:29:26


It hurt my eyes a little at fist watching this! Overall, I think its a very nice sequence.
logicfusion
2011-03-07 12:07:03


Well, there's a Joe in there, Emily did something and were there some vfx?...........

If there was an idea in there somewhere maybe it wouldn't be totally pointless, but there isn't, so it is.
Andi Rusyn
2011-05-24 16:59:27


Well, there's a Joe in there, Emily did something and were there some vfx?...........

If there was an idea in there somewhere maybe it wouldn't be totally pointless, but there isn't, so it is.
Andi Rusyn
2011-05-24 19:12:02


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