Gillette Uncut: Will.i.am, All American Rejects Get Raw and Ready
Posted on Feb 05, 2010 @ 09:49AM - Add a comment
In super-saturated colors, textured sepia tones and grainy black-and-white shots, music artists are stripped down and laid bare in Uncut, a new documentary sponsored by Gillette.
Featuring country singer Tim McGraw, All-American Rejects’ Tyson Ritter, Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus and Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, Uncut is an aesthetically beautiful, edgy and deeply artistic ode to music. Veteran music photographer and filmmaker Danny Clinch directed, incorporating his expertise in still photography to create visual melanges of moving images and photographs. Through first-person dialogue, music and slick editing, the film’s four segments offer a beind-the-scenes look at how each of the artists prepare for a concert day-of -- from biking inside Madison Square Garden to beat-boxing at home before a hush-hush DJ set in L.A. and, of course, shaving in the dressing room.
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Uncut made its worldwide premiere Thursday at the Grammy Museum Thursday in Los Angeles, where Clinch and three of his four subjects gathered to view the film -- some for the first time.
“[I]t was better than I thought it was going to be,” will.i.am told RadarOnline.com. “It came out pretty dope.” The premiere was just the warm-up for him: The artist and his fellow Peas are nominated for six awards in this year’s Grammys.
