ORBITAL – “The Box Part 2” from the IN SIDES album
Written by Paul and Phil Hartnoll
Drums : Clune
Some facts about this track:-
Drums supplied by Clune
The second part was started on a Sunday afternoon.
It was created very quick then Paul went out to see Spring Heel Jack Dj’ing in Soho. They played it out from the DAT.
The video was filmed around Shoreditch and is one of their favourite videos.
Paul once met John Barry. He was asked if he had heard The Box and he made a comment “yes, its hardly the persuaders is it!”
He said that it was based on a recurring dream where he discovered a mysterious wooden box in the Welsh countryside, but he would always wake up just at the point he was opening the box. He never did find out what was inside.
Jes Benstock and Luke Losey directed the video, which covered the story of an eco-conscious alien-like figure, played by Tilda Swinton. It was nominated for best video at the 1997 Brit Awards.
They worked with Tilda for about a week, coaching her on where her feet needed to be for every single frame. Off camera, you had people counting the frames out loud so she could get her positioning right, ’12, 13, 14, 15′ and so on. Each of the video takes would take several minutes.
Jes Benstock stated “The fastest scene that was shot was one frame every two seconds, so you’re shooting roughly two seconds of footage every minute. When you start to roll, you’re going to be rolling for about ten minutes – I think seven minutes was the shortest we ever rolled for. With that in mind, we often set up two cameras, one fixed and one moving. With some of the scenes, it was exhausting, you came home stinking of traffic fumes.”
Paul and Phil are in The Box video but you won’t see or recognise them due to the filming.
