Gottfried Helnwein | ARTIST | News Update | SEAN PENN INVITES HELNWEIN TO COLLABORATE ON MUSIC-VIDEO PRODUCTIONThe Barry Williams Show

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Famous for his groundbreaking and multi-award winning videos, PETER GABRIEL has teamed up with actor/director SEAN PENN to create a controversial new video for his forthcoming single, 'The Barry Williams Show' which is released on 9th September. Both the single and the video have already been banned from daytime airplay on TV and some radio stations.
'The Barry Williams Show' looks at the outer limits of reality TV and examines how confessional TV and dysfunctional behaviour feed off each other. Its eponymous character, although fictional, bears more than a hint of Jerry Springer and the video further reflects this. The song has already courted controversy and its hard hitting lyrics, which cover the full gambit of trash TV, from paedophiles to prostitution and bondage, have already had to be adulterated for airplay on some radio stations, including Radio 2. The video carries on this dark but humorous vein, but has already been banned from broadcast before the watershed of 9pm by the ITC.
Speaking of the single Gabriel said:
"It's a little fable about reality TV, where that's going and what it does to people. I know for myself you want to watch it, but it's a little like junk food - you have an appetite for it but it doesn't make you feel very good at the end of it."
For the video, Penn transports us onto the Barry Williams TV set, with the host playing ringmaster to a guest list of social misfits, including bondage lovers, balaclavared perverts, erotic dancers and a baying crowd. Gabriel is the story teller who observes the scene with devilish delight as the show turns to bloodshed. In a twist of irony, Brady Bunch actor Barry Williams is given a cameo role in the video.
Speaking of his decision to team up with Penn, Peter Gabriel said: "I called up Sean because I think that he's a very good director and for the video I wanted something that was quite dark but had some guts to it as well as some humour and I thought he would do that well. On this video, I've had comparatively little input, I've thrown in a few ideas but it's really Sean's baby."
Sean Penn added: "The very first movie I made was shortly after I heard Solsbury Hill and I started seeing pictures in my head straight away. It hit me in a very visual way and so the very first piece I made was scored to that. Peter's someone who has been an inspiration to me in a million ways for a long time. When I heard the single, I got a very clear set of visuals in my head. I worked on the crescendo of the piece first and kind of worked backwards from there to create the story."
The partnership follows on from Gabriel's long association with film and working with directors such as Martin Scorcese (Last Temptation of Christ), Alan Parker (Birdy) and most recently Phillip Noyce in The Rabbit Proof Fence, which is released in November. However this is the first time that he has collaborated with an established Hollywood director on one of his videos, which looks set to become as compelling viewing as the TV genre it portrays.
'The Barrie Williams Show' is the first single to be taken from 'UP' which is released on September 23rd.
Society Review has exclusive video captures of this video on page 2 of this feature, please note, they are not suitable for those who are easily offended, or minors!


		10. August 2002 Los Angeles SEAN PENN INVITES HELNWEIN TO COLLABORATE ON MUSIC-VIDEO PRODUCTION PETER GABRIEL TEAMS UP WITH SEAN PENN FOR CONTROVERSIAL NEW VIDEO. VIDEO BANNED FOR BROADCAST BEFORE 9PM Exclusive video captures of this video on page 2 of this feature, please note, they are not suitable for those who are easily offended, or minors! Famous for his groundbreaking and multi-award winning videos, PETER GABRIEL has teamed up with actor/director SEAN PENN to create a controversial new video for his forthcoming single, 'The Barry Williams Show' which is released on 9th September. Both the single and the video have already been


		PETER GABRIEL TEAMS UP WITH SEAN PENN FOR CONTROVERSIAL NEW VIDEO VIDEO BANNED FOR BROADCAST BEFORE 9PM Society Review has exclusive video captures of this video on page 2 of this feature, please note, they are not suitable for those who are easily offended, or minors! Famous for his groundbreaking and multi-award winning videos, PETER GABRIEL has teamed up with actor/director SEAN PENN to create a controversial new video for his forthcoming single, 'The Barry Williams Show' which is released on 9th September. Both the single and the video have already been banned from daytime airplay on TV and some radio stations. 'The Barry Williams Show' looks at the outer limits of reality TV and examines how confessional TV and dysfunctional behaviour feed off each other. Its eponymous character, although fictional, bears more than a hint of Jerry Springer and the video further reflects this. The song has already courted controversy and its hard hitting lyrics, which cover the full gambit of trash TV, from paedophiles to prostitution and bondage, have already had to be adulterated for airplay on some radio stations, including Radio 2. The video carries on this dark but humorous vein, but has already been banned from broadcast before the watershed of 9pm by the ITC. Speaking of the single Gabriel said: "It's a little fable about reality TV, where that's going and what it does to people. I know for myself you want to watch it, but it's a little like junk food - you have an appetite for it but it doesn't make you feel very good at the end of it." For the video, Penn transports us onto the Barry Williams TV set, with the host playing ringmaster to a guest list of social misfits, including bondage lovers, balaclavared perverts, erotic dancers and a baying crowd. Gabriel is the story teller who observes the scene with devilish delight as the show turns to bloodshed. In a twist of irony, Brady Bunch actor Barry Williams is given a cameo role in the video. Speaking of his decision to team up with Penn, Peter Gabriel said: "I called up Sean because I think that he's a very good director and for the video I wanted something that was quite dark but had some guts to it as well as some humour and I thought he would do that well. On this video, I've had comparatively little input, I've thrown in a few ideas but it's really Sean's baby." Sean Penn added: "The very first movie I made was shortly after I heard Solsbury Hill and I started seeing pictures in my head straight away. It hit me in a very visual way and so the very first piece I made was scored to that. Peter's someone who has been an inspiration to me in a million ways for a long time. When I heard the single, I got a very clear set of visuals in my head. I worked on the crescendo of the piece first and kind of worked backwards from there to create the story." The partnership follows on from Gabriel's long association with film and working with directors such as Martin Scorcese (Last Temptation of Christ), Alan Parker (Birdy) and most recently Phillip Noyce in The Rabbit Proof Fence, which is released in November. However this is the first time that he has collaborated with an established Hollywood director on one of his videos, which looks set to become as compelling viewing as the TV genre it portrays. 'The Barrie Williams Show' is the first single to be taken from 'UP' which is released on September 23rd. Society Review has exclusive video captures of this video on page 2 of this feature, please note, they are not suitable for those who are easily offended, or minors! www.societyreview.com


		Bizarre facial distortions were done working with noted artist Gottfried Helnwein, who lives in Ireland but has a studio in Los Angeles. Entity FX Creates VFX for Peter Gabriel’s "Barry Williams Show" Music Video Delivers over 50 effects shots five days after receiving locked cut from editorial Santa Monica, CA (Sep. 04, 2002) Directed by Sean Penn, the music video features the world of Barry Williams, a fictitious Jerry Springer-like talk show host, as he holds court to the everyday freaks of daytime TV. By the end of this entertaining, sardonic video, the audience has begun eerily to form stigmatas and tears of blood and Barry Williams finds himself caught in a bloody maelstrom that finally leaves him at the bottom of a crimson pool. Entity FX was kept busy, delivering over 50 effects shots in just five days of receiving the locked cut from editorial. Effects work included complex green screen composites, CG blood, CG weather effects and multiple image distortions. Bizarre facial distortions were done working with noted artist Gottfried Helnwein, who lives in Ireland but has a studio in Los Angeles.


		Gabriel-Single wird zensiert 14. September 2002, 14:17 Zu brutal Der Musiker Peter Gabriel wird von britischen Medienwächtern ausgebremst. Das Video zu Gabriels neuer Single "The Barry Williams Show" darf erst nach 21 Uhr gezeigt werden. Fürs Radio musste der Text des Liedes angepasst werden.


		Peter Gabriel: Medienwächter mögen seine neue Single nicht AP Hamburg - "The Barry Williams Show" befasst sich mit den Grenzen von Reality-TV und untersucht die Beziehung zwischen exhibitionistischen Fernsehsendungen und abnormem Verhalten. Im Video, das Gabriel gemeinsam mit dem Schauspieler und Regisseur Sean Penn gedreht hat, verwandelt sich eine von Gabriel beobachtete Talkshow langsam in ein Blutbad. Obwohl der Name "Barry Williams" fiktiv ist, enthält das Video nicht nur Parallelen zur umstrittenen US-Pöbel-Sendung "Jerry Springer Show". "Es ist eine kleine Fabel über Reality-TV, darüber, wohin es führen kann und was es den Menschen antut", sagte Gabriel. "Das ist ein bisschen wie mit Junk Food. Du hast Lust darauf, aber am Ende hast du kein gutes Gefühl dabei."