Willie Williams' infra-red secret surveillance Vertigo clips

[dr. zooeuss]

Wow, another youtube discovery... man it can be a dangerous place to waste hours and days and decades of ones' life. ...

anyway, I'm probably not the first to post these here, but I've never seen them mentioned yet- found these four 'surveillance videos' -

"made by Willie Williams during U2's Vertigo tour using remotely controlled infra-red cameras. The performers were unaware that they were being filmed."

They're black and white clips, quite clear, lots of compositional character and beauty, hard to describe but definitely worth a look- unlike any live U2 footage I've seen before- and the performances and sound are great as well!

1) Love and Peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2QNRcslQc

2) An Cat Dubh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s822mgu8sLE

3) The Electric Co.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ij6VIp20j8

4) Running to Stand Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4RvVETxilM

 

[corianderstem]

Hey, that's pretty cool! They should release THAT as a DVD.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[dr. zooeuss]

Absolutely!

Ha, I was expecting you to say these were exclusive U2.com clips or something... they kind of strike me as something the official site might post for subscribers.

 

[Rob33]

wow great clips! thank you! that RTSS performance is quite good!

 

[dr. zooeuss]

that RTSS performance is quite good!

dude, it's U2, get that tone of surprise out of your post.







(joke)

glad you like it.

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Aren't those on the second disc of the Chicago DVD? There's some kinda surveillance clips, but I never bothered to watch them

By the way, that's Willie Williams's actual YouTube account There's some other interesting, and sometimes totally random videos on there... including a stuffed cat humping one of U2's Grammy.

Paul McGuinness: What are you doing?
Willie Williams: I'm just making a short film of a stuffed animal humping a Grammy, but I'll stop now if you'd like.
Paul McGuinness: ...that's ridiculous.

 

[Lila64]

Very

 

[Popmartijn]

Hey, that's pretty cool! They should release THAT as a DVD.

Erm... they did.

It's on the second disc of the Chicago Vertigo DVD.

 

[last unicorn]

Hello! These clips are on the second disc of the Chicago DVD. I actually watched them before I watched the concert itself because I found the idea rather interesting. I like these clips, very cool!

 

[Dusty Bottoms]

These were on the second disc of the Chicago DVD!

btw "The performers were unaware that they were being filmed." how stupid is that? there were only like 500 cameras recording that show, why would they think they weren't being filmed???

 

[Trinity3000]

Yeah that's what I thought ^^^
Then I read Willies comment

The films are composited from snippets of footage taken from about 40 different shows on the first N.American leg of the tour in '05. (I only had four cameras which could shoot 20 - 30 seconds at a time, so would reposition them each day.)

So they would have knowingly been filmed at like one or two of those shows.

PS I wanna see that grammy humping video

 

[Trinity3000]

ooh and there it goes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkz1yYdWKHI