- Alex Rutterford
Alex Rutterford is a British director and
graphic design er working mostly onmusic video s. He studied graphic design at the Croydon School of Art and graduated in1991 . He started his professional career by designing graphics on sets for films such as Judge Dredd. He was a member of the design team lost in space where he worked as CG artist andcreative director . Nowadays he is repped by production companies RSA and Black Dog, the promo division of RSA.His most well-known works include the videos for "
Gantz Graf " byAutechre , "Verbal" byAmon Tobin and "Go to Sleep " byRadiohead . Lesser known is the unofficial video he created for the Autechre track "Eutow" as part of theChannel 4 music programme "Lo-fi" in 2001 [http://www.shots.net/news_detail.asp?id=134] [http://www.mad.co.uk/Main/News/Disciplines/Media/Articles/a150797b3a614cc6b747b0eb364a7caa/Channel-4-encourages-emerging-directors.html] . His short film work includes "Sound Engine", an early study made for onedotzero2 set to an Autechre song; "3space", again specially made for onedotzero and set to the overture of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro "; and "Monocodes". All these films and videos consist of 3Dcomputer generated imagery , and feature visuals that follow the rhythm of the music very closely. These works were produced during his time at lost in space in the case of the onedotzero works as lost in space films.Rutterford also designed the cover for the Autechre albums "
Draft 7.30 " and "Untilted ", as well as the booklet and menu forChris Cunningham 's "Directors Label "DVD . In addition to this he worked as graphics designer on two music videos directed by Cunningham, namelyBjörk 's "All Is Full of Love (1999), andSquarepusher 's "Come On My Selector" (1998) for which he created the video screens. He also did the camerawork, together with Rob Bliss, for Cunningham's "Rubber Johnny ".His works have appeared in
onedotzero film festivals, DVD releases, and the book onedotzero published by Laurence King,lovebytes , and several other digital film DVD compilations.Filmography
Music videos
*"Eutow" by Autechre (2001)
*"Gantz Graf " byAutechre (2002)
*"Verbal" byAmon Tobin (2002)
*"Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.)" byRadiohead (2003)Short films
*"Sound Engine" (1998)
*"Monocodes" (2000)
*"3space" (2000)Ads
*"A Day in the Life" for
Sony PlayStation Portable (2005)
*"Future", "Ring", "Street" for Dodge Ram 1500 ("Rock 'Em Sock 'Em" campaign, 2007)
*"Bass Bins", "Mojito" forBacardi ("Made to Mix" campaign, 2007)Gallery
External links
* [http://www.beam.tv/beamreels/beamreel.php?pdqxnDTJxn Reel] at
BEAM.TV
* [http://www.rsafilms.com/ RSA/Black Dog]
* [http://www.lostinspace.com/ lost in space]
* [http://www.warprecords.com/news/?ti_id=512 Interview about "Gantz Graf"] on warprecords.com
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