Back in February I came across this video, which featured two friends of mine in an urban western scene in Brooklyn in New York City.  Being astonished by the music, the video and the actors I dreamt of showing this compilation on #Horst und Edeltraut Online. However back then it was still in the making; nobody knew about it and I guess I was not supposed to. Thus, I kept quiet and waited until its release day… 

For one week I have been trying to write something about this collaboration project, but honestly I had severe difficulties. Should I depict the actors, who have been featured in our Young Creative archive before with different professions? Or would it be better to focus on the uncertainties of the not-yet-established music project “Slow Limits”?

Well, finally it is about the making of this video. Lee Peterkin the director found a very beautiful way to capture a 4:30 minute shooting scene. Usually it takes seconds to shoot a gun, but Lee managed to extend this moment to the maximum.

It all started off when Austrian Mr. Cherry  returned to New York…

The actual member of the Folding Legs spent a couple of weeks in Vienna. When he was separated from his band buddies in New York, he could not keep still and so developed over night a new project named “Slow Limits” together with his French friend and exterminator Alexander Vonhof. When Vonhof returned to Nice, his place in France to kill rats and vermins, Mr. Cherry went back to New York to follow up on his music business. He shared his new project with director Lee Peterkin – soon a new collaboration developed…

Over the past year, Peterkin was eager to explore something in the Western genre. Sergio Leone’s films such as Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly inspired him. Wanting to step further into it he looked more closely into recent releases like Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will be Blood or James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma or Andrew Dominick’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

By the time Mr. Cherry returned to New York City and shared his new project, both knew immediately they had to take it to another level. So Peterkin became the father of this production.  It took them a week and a half to discuss the storyline and concepts with their friend and actor Vinicius Vieira de Vieira. Preparations were made with assistant director Anna Dale-Meunier. Then, Lee called upon a friend, Ryan White, to help capture the images. Soon they had everything together to shoot the video. It took them a while to find the perfect weather conditions, the place and the right moments but soon they had it all together. The slow motion was achieved by a high speed camera.  Once the images were taken, it only needed editing and coloring. The coloring can be a hassle as nobody can predict the colors that appear on every screen. It is outstanding what this young team of creatives managed to produce in a couple of days. It is a beautiful but intense depiction of this moment in the early morning hours in an abandoned Brooklyn area. As the voyeur of this scene you can not only see but really feel the emotions that are between the three participants in this scene of shooting. Peterkin created an insane moment of time, it slows down within the moment of itself. Very sensitive.

Watch the video here. Additions might be made to it in the future.

Photographed by Lelo Lourenzo

Additonal information: 

“Technology by Slow Limits

Story: Two Cowboys face-off in this urban-western music video

Actors: Leonie Bockelmann, Chris Cherry and Vinicius Vieira de Vieira

Directed by Lee Peterkin

Cinematography: Ryan White

Assistant Director: Anna Dale-Meunier

Gaffer: Travor Hoar

More works can be found on Treo Pictures.

www.treopictures.com & info@treopictures.com & slowlimits@gmail.com

by Gabrielle Berlin