Director (Idea/Cinematography/CG): Pavel Samokhvalov (vimeo.com/pavelsamokhvalov)
Video assistants: Konstantin Terentyev, Pavel Notchenko, Alexander Karnyukhin
Make up: Katya Bogdanovich
Octopus 3D rigging and consulting: Igor Surin
Thanks for the help and consulting: Anatoly Belikov & Anatolik Belikov, Viktor Lyagushkin, Alexey Layfurov, Trina Sen
Video assistants: Konstantin Terentyev, Pavel Notchenko, Alexander Karnyukhin
Make up: Katya Bogdanovich
Octopus 3D rigging and consulting: Igor Surin
Thanks for the help and consulting: Anatoly Belikov & Anatolik Belikov, Viktor Lyagushkin, Alexey Layfurov, Trina Sen
The Calvert Journal premieres a new video by Russian electronic band SBPCh. Directed by Moscow-based artist Pavel Samokhvalov, it takes the viewer to the unknown depths of the ocean to sing with the whales and face existential fears.
Psychedelic electronic band SBPCh, which stands for "The Biggest Prime Number" in Russian, comes from St Petersburg, and has over the years become one of the favourite indie acts in the Russian-speaking world. The video for Whale is the latest in a line of collaborations between SPBCh and Samokhvalov (see a surreal trip on an ocean liner he designed for the band last year here). In his new work Samokhvalov comes back to his favourite tool — 3D graphics — and his favourite theme, the ocean.
