Dreams come true in David Wilson’s video for Tame Impala’s Mind Mischief: a schoolboy is lost in erotic yearnings for his sexy young lady teacher in a 1970s English boys school. She’s surely unattainable. But when the school bell goes and she saunters out to her red 2CV and lights a big fat joint, our schoolboy then gets in next to her…
What follows is an erotic fantasy that spills from steamy live action into mind-melting animation. It is effectively two videos in one, a brilliant fantasy ride through Tame Impala’s dreamy psychedelia – and a brilliant demonstration of David Wilson’s command of his art. It also features Bill Milner as the schoolboy, who eagle-eyed viewers will recognise as the young star of Garth Jennings’ cult movie Son of Rambo, now nearly grown-up.
Is it all a dream? It’s certainly a wonderful dream of a video…
Tame Impala
Mind Mischief (Modular)
Director: David Wilson
Animation Direction: David Wilson and Thomas Ormonde
EP: Tamsin Glasson
Prod co: Colonel Blimp
Producer: Julie Crosbie
Production Manager: Drew O’Neill
Casting: Anna Kennedy and Alec Drysdale
Schoolboy: Bill Milner
School Teacher: Liza Callinicos
Male Teacher: Andrew Docker
Schoolboys: Jake de la Mothe, Joshua Charles, Hugh Lovric, Laurence Montagu, Seb Luke-Virgo, Imran Mair, George Kirchner, Jack Kirkwood, James Welsh, Nima Bazcar, JJ Tominey, Stephen Rawson, Tim Walton
DP: Pau Castejon
1st AD: Paul Bennett
2nd AD: James Evered
Location Manager: Stephen Sanchez
Focus Puller: Fran Weston
Loader: Jenny John-Chuan
Grip: Ben Freeman
Gaffer: Jonathan Spencer
Electrician: Jason Martin, Oliver Poole, Lee Martin
Art Director: Laura Johnstone
Art Dept: Jack Johnstone, Luke Judlin, Cassia Dickinson, Susie Gaydos
Wardrobe: Natalie Marie Willis
School Emblem designed by Alex Trochut
Hair & Makeup: Anna Thompson
Runners: Natalia Maus, Jack Glossop
Editor: James Rose at Cut and Run
Illustrator: Andres Guzman
3D Previs: Simone Ghilardotti
Lead Animator: Jonathan Harris
Flash Animators: Michael Zauner, Matt Lloyd, Frankie Swan, Alice Dupre, Sarah Beeby, Ella McLean, Tom Brown, Jack Nelson, Patrick Koduah, David Wilson, Thomas Matuszewski, Tom Bunker
Colourists: Stefan Georgiou, Rezvan Abbaspour, Jamie Fraser, Claire Ritchie, Maria Cecilia, Emmy Castelain, Katy Beveridge, Jessie May Peters, Emma-Rose Dade, Janna Lundius, Steve Shaw, Dele Nuga, Julie Crosbie
Compositing: Thomas Ormonde, Simone Ghilardotti
Sound Mixer: Ben Gulvin at 750mph
Grade: James Bamford at The Mill
Ink Footage: James Lowrey
Commissioner: Glen Goetze at Modular Records
Special thanks to Jess Reese for loaning her 2CV, Barnaby Laws at Panalux and Chris Youlton at ARRI