Nike + 48 Cameras = “Art of Football”
Solo installation from Claudio Sinatti on Vimeo.
Claudio Sinatti was commissioned to shoot Italian footballer Marco Materazzi for the Nike “Art of Football” exhibition. He built a special frame to hang on the player to film from all angles while he kicked the pig’s bladder around.
Watching the beginning of this video is like watching the A-Team in action. A kind of wussy, intellectual A-Team, but a nut’n-bolt screwing, metal rod wielding, hardware hacking A-Team nonetheless. After ratcheting 48 cameras to the “360º Corset” though, it gets a little dull. Even the footballer Marco Materazzi looks bored, although for around $10 million a year he can afford a little grunt work now and then.
The final rig is a cross between the Matrix’s Bullet Time setup and Scorsese’s SnorriCam, the camera clamped to Harvey Keitel in the bar scene in Mean Streets. Imagine what you could do with all those megapixels of multi-angle video. Sadly, Sinatti didn’t bother with any whirling 3D action and instead stuck the whole lot up on a wall of screens. Still, full marks for the mix of high and low tech behind the scenes. And one demerit for the tedious focus-pulling in the edit.
I love the camera rig for this project. Have a look at his site claudiosinatti.com/blog/ for some amazing insight on this and other work.
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