Justin Ouellette’s Design Remixed talk tonight was full of good things—like any good mixtape maker his slides were all eclectic, but each one was essential. Interspersed with projects he’s proud of (like the lovely website for The Normative Music Company), he imparted a few guiding principles (“I think minimalism may precede maximalism—look at the caves of Lascaux”), and, much to my delight, showed a few things he likes that other people have made. One of them was this video by Jake Schreier for the band Francis and the Lights. Shot in a single take on a bare stage backdrop, it’s sort of like Alexander Sokurov meets Derek Jarman with music by Prince. (Or something like that.)
For more on Justin, check out this Q&A with the New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones.
