Video Premiere: Sampology Remixed Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’, And Now You Can Dance To It

Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her — in which a man falls for his highly-advanced, sexily-voiced operating system — is exactly the kind of movie that’s been waiting for a remix. There’s beautiful cinematography. There’s easy-to-sample songs. And there’s the undeniably close-to-home theme of being super in love with technology.

Brisbane-based AV DJ Sampology — aka Sam Poggioli — is super in love with technology, too. So he stripped the piano and arpeggiator from Her, remixed it with video, and produced an original film clip.

“Considering there’s some pretty out-there premises at the base of Her, it flows really effectively,” he says. “Also, I loved all of the design work they put into creating all of the day-to-day devices. I really wanted to try and present the underlying feeling at the core of the movie, but do it in my own way by cutting up both the vision and sound.”

But, he says, it wasn’t easy. “It took ages! I’ll always think I’m just making some little idea, and then in the process I’ll come across other interesting things to do, and it’ll just balloon out into this huge project. I’ve never studied how to do visuals properly, I only took it up when I started playing my AV shows because I wanted to make images move in specific ways with the audio to bring ideas I had to life.”

“Some people smoke weed to zone out, I just rotoscope and listen to podcasts.”

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Sampology is playing at Valley Fiesta this weekend, in the Brisbane CBD.