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THE STORY FROM THE DIRECTOR - PAUL FEDOR Well this video was my hey day....my apex....the day I went Erich von Stroheim... I got a call to work with Jared Leto's new band. He came to me with an idea about kids hearing something from the ground......about mud. I was heavily into Koyanasquatsi and Baraka. I also new that Sam Bayer had done a Smashing Pumpkin's video like this. I was feeling like the whole concept was too close for comfort. My agent and the $500,000 dollar budget said other wise. I made my first compromise in film. I would do it, if I could have a riot scene in it with police, to make it different from Sam's video. They accepted and the madness begun. I still never got my helicopter shot. We shot 2 back to back 18 hour days in 110 degree desert heat.....we tore apart the set from Little House on the Prairie. It was so bad that I feared the mud kids would leave....I let them cover me in mud as well....to go through the suffering with them. It was crazy. Jared's running around in the tank I had rented.....kids were having sex in the port-o-pottys. And Rachael is digging a hole so deep, we had to shoot around 150 ft mound of dirt. I always wanted to thank the kids that endured the heat that day. It should have been 3 days with normal hours....but the EP's thought differently. I am just glad no one died that day. I remember the noble 5 that stood with me at 5 AM in the morning. After being in mud and heat for 2 days....they volunteered to get shot with fire hoses until the sun came up. In the end it was fun...and muddy madness. |