August 10th, 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
The Barry Williams Show
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.

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 VideoDelivers over 50 effects shots five days after receiving locked cut from editorialSanta 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.

Der Spiegel:

SPIEGEL ONLINE - 14. September 2002, 14:17

Gabriel-Single wird zensiert

14. September 2002, 14:17Zu brutalDer 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

APHamburg - "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."

watch the video: www.petergabriel.com