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Iconic director: Simon Cahn

By Kelechi Okorie

Image result for simon cahnWho is Simon Cahn?

French filmmaker Simon Cahn began directing when he was 19 with his first short film Prince Tribe. After a few years in New York working for actress Milla Jovovich, Cahn returned to Paris to work on several projects for international brands such as Nike, Herms, Louis Vuitton and Supreme with Terry Richardson and Lady Gaga.

Simon found great success with his short film Mourir Auprs de Toi co-directed with Spike Jonze for Olympia Le-Tan. The film won awards at several festivals including Le Book and was officially selected for the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival, and Locarno Film Festival.

Cahn was also the art director for French Magazine Jalouse and recently directed Une fille comme les Autres Part 2 for Jalouse & Diesel with international model Ashley Smith which was selected at ASVOFF festival (at Centre Pompidou, Paris) and shortlisted at the Young Directors Awards (Cannes 2013).

Simon travelled across America as part of Levis Station to Station project to film and create The Last Boxcar, an encapsulating film about Americana and its relationship with art and pop culture the project was premiered exclusively on Nowness.

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Pneumonia "by Simon Cahn

Image result for pneumonia danny brownPneumonia is a music video directed by Simon Cahn. The song is written and performed by Danny Brown.

Simon Cahn explores the duality of success in this harrowing, nightmarish video for Danny Brown.

Predominantly featuring Brown suspended from chains in a car park, or being dragged along the floor, the visuals here are simple yet striking. It also cuts way to footage of Reagan and Bush Sr. plus Danny Brown himself on a political rostrum, and mixing newer digital and older VHS formats for an intense gut-punch clip.

Pneumonia feels like a surreal nosebleed torture of a track in all the best ways," says Cahn. "I tried to get the same emotions in the video. Big up to Danny for hanging upside down in the air all night.

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Image result for pneumonia danny brownI am very inspired by this video as it is very innovative and unique. It also influenced my group and I to make a video so mysterious, heart wrenching and thrilling as this. We originally had an idea to use chains in our music video and because the director Simon Cahn had a extremely creative vision for this object, it gave us many ideas on what we can achieve with it. The mise en scene he used completely fit in with our own ideas as well. This was to have very low key lighting and wear informal clothing such as a jumpsuit and hoodie. We were also inspired by the acting. The lifeless body language and psychotic facial expressions really caught our eye and we hope to do something even more engaging for our audience. Our vision was to have our artist restricted and restrained with chains being dragged around so it looks like he is being controlled by something much bigger than him. That something is the artists alter ego.

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