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New on the Musicbed Podcast, Director @youngreplicant (aka Alex Takács) explores the value of replacing early confidence with technique and discusses why filmmakers should own their weaknesses and weirdness. Young Replicant is known for his high concepts and visual poetry.
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- Flying Lotus – “Coronus, The Terminator”
- Purity Ring – “Begin Again”
- Lorde – “Team”
- The Xx – “Fiction”
The music video for Flying Lotus’s “Coronus, The Terminator” is a “sit-down” meeting with mortality. Shot as a deathbed vision, it follows one man’s haunting encounter with a boy and his companions. At the time, Flying Lotus was coping with his mother’s death, so Alex’s vision was an attempt to coincide with his headspace. It’s cutting in a way tha...
Speaking with Alex gives you the sense that he aims for longevity with his work. “I don’t want to be part of the ‘turn-and-burn’ ethos of video making,” he says. His 2015 collaboration with Purity Ring reflects that, visually and thematically a comment on antiquated Puritan values and the reviving of old myths. It feels like black magic reincarnati...
Lorde’s “Team” has been Alex’s most-watched video to date, gathering over 155 million views in the last four years. Still, it’s informed with the same storytelling ethos of his other projects. Regardless of genre, Alex wants to show the raw experience of being human, while sprinkling in bits of magic: “The idea for Lorde went through a couple revis...
Fresh off of their 2012 release Coexist, The xx collaborated again with Young Replicant for “Fiction.” The videofollows bassist Oliver Sim through the remains of a debaucherous party and his fascination with an unclear light source. “That was an interesting situation. It was a one-night shoot. I remember feeling that post-shoot depression, which ha...
Alex Takacs Pat Scola Jordan Harkins Laura Tunstall Pulse Films Laura Tunstall Alex Kornreich Jake Bianco Elver Hernandez Matt Kubas Eddie Apodaca Alec Contestabile Chelsea Turner Stephanie Strate Lola Son Christopher Day Chris Watson Wood @ Ruffian Post Amanda Jones Greg Reese @ The Mill Kurt Ewell Jessica Zeta Ben Goodman Omri Kruvi Julia ...
Feb 26, 2021 · Alex Takacs, aka Young Replicant, has long been recognised as a master of enigmatic narrative. In music videos for the likes of Alt-J, Flying Lotus, Purity Ring and others he creates worlds where the viewer is drawn to the characters and the sense of place, but also tested by a less conventional, more unpredictable reality.
Earlier this summer, Alex Takacs - otherwise known as Young Replicant – was selected as part of the 25th Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase at Cannes, for his direction of the video for Flying Lotus' Coronus, The Terminator - in which Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus, plays a dying man travelling through the intermediate zone between ...
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Director, Pulse Films Los Angeles | Age: 28. Toronto-born, Los Angeles-raised director Alex Takacs began making videos under the awesome Young Replicant moniker while studying design at UCLA.
