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| TV,
Jerry Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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I bet you missed this the first time round. Hell, I bet you missed it the second time round. They keep sticking out shows like this in the ‘Later’ slot on C4, and no one watches because they can’t be arsed to go beyond those HIGHLY FRICKING IRRITATING CGI ‘comedy schtick slots with all the ‘funny’ robots that kick off most late nights on C4. Deep breath. Hold it. Let it go. That stuff makes me grit my teeth. I’m over it.
Anyways, ‘Mirrorball’ is in a nutshell a series of hour-long documentaries about the most exciting pop video makers du jour. So you get a bit of chat/talking heads, where they take you through the video, sometimes interview the ‘artiste’ who the video’s made for. Then they show you the video (in it’s entirety, which is a blessing for us non-satellite types), and then they show you another video, and then another. And that’s it, and it’s great and it doesn’t need anything else – no big mouthed presenters, no flashy editing, no pointless in-depth tracing of the subject’s background.
It all makes you really pine for the halcyon days of ‘The Chart Show’, and this show scores over that modern classic because it shows good videos, but not ‘shite’ videos. After this weeks run through of the work of horror influenced Chris Cunningham ( ooo, they’ll show that scary ‘Aphex Twin’ video, much nastier than anything on C5’s ‘Urban Gothic’), the show goes on to look at Jean-Michel Gondry (that ‘Daft Punk’ dance meisterpiece, and most of Bjork’s best stuff), and my fave, Spike Jonze. This means they’ll show the ‘Sabotage’ video again! – surely the TV event of the month!
Channel 4 Wed 00.35 BST
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