Big Time Sensuality

the video for Big Time Sensuality
Stephane : When I went to L.A. the first time, I heard her music and I was like, ’Wow, who is that person...". And I remember I had been contaceted by someone to do a portrait of an artist called Björk. Björk : I’d been photographed by so many people, and you only come across a few in your whole life that have that sort of physical presence like Stephane. He’s taken photographs of Kurt Cobain, and they are the only photographs of Kurt Cobain, where I’ve seen him laughing out loud and dancing. But not like he’s immitating Stephane. Stephane just has that effect on people, that they go really strong. And they go really physically expressive. And you can see that gratitude, that they’re all expressing. Stephane : I saw her face and I heard her music... and I couldn’t sleep. Björk :...

"Life Through A Lens" , 2002/08/17

the video for Big Time Sensuality
I had seen the “Red Hot Chilli Peppers“ video that he did, sort of black and white and silver, and I want to do a video to song called “ Big Time Sensuality“, and I was very aware that I want it to be quite different from “Human Behavior“, which is more sort of epic story-telling thing. ‘Big Time Sensuality’ was more like a personal statement, it has to be very in-your-face. Then he called up, a little later, with something he taugh he was even better, basicly to get a truck and drive up and down manathan as long as the light would last. I guess the idea to put someone on a truck , and kinda drive the truck, and you have to dance really instensely, and just the elements of danger at the top of that, do it in a city like New York. I think the policeman, very aggressive, asking us to try...

Stéphane Sednaoui DVD, 2005