NEW SPECIAL EDITION DVD

This DVD is the best reference on Elliott ever.



It contains a specially edited intro, both the Voice Of A New Generation AND Generation Of A New Voice videos, plus four Galleries containing over forty of Elliott masterpieces. The galleries are divided into four decades - the Seventies, The Eighties,The Nineties and The Noughties, establishing beyond a shadow of a doubt that Elliott was an innovator then and is an innovator now.



It also shows that he creates timeless work. So whether you like the glamour, the girls, the passion, the philosophy or just the pioneering heavyweight art, you'll find much gorgeousness here.



Details on the included videos follow.....

VOICE OF A NEW GENERATION
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The Original Artist Promo Video, shot on location in London, New York and Paris, it was shot between 1986 and 1990. It took twenty-one days of shooting and a three hundred hour edit and cost over £100,000 to make (and that was back then). Despite this, the video is only 11 intense, action packed, minutes long, with a further 4 mins credit sequence (including pictures and titles). Think of it as like 4 rock videos all strung together. This video makes a good catalogue of the work up to 1989 - about 35 images are featured including most of the classics. It contains footage from inside Elliott's various homes and studios (not that you would know as there is never a piece of equipment in sight).



It also contains amazing music by kind permission of Jean Michel Jarre and there is incredible footage of "Baywatch Babe" Natalie Jay (formerly Banus) shot by Elliott himself when she was only 18. As many have commented, no-one ever shot her better.

One thing you can say about this video, when it comes on the room goes quiet, such is its power. It is set to four tracks of Jean Michel's marvelous music and is partly autobiographical.

As Elliott commented rather enigmatically at the time "Why let an idea get in the way of creativity". During production it basically went off the rails and Elliott threw away the script and even left all the words out! The result is timeless. The words, by the way, all went to make up Generation Of A New Voice.



The video has a climactic sense of mounting excitement and builds pace brilliantly. There is classic footage of Elliott's 1989 entrance to the "Light Years" London show in the pink Cadillac full of red balloons with the Monroesque Liz Caron. Haunting footage of Elliott wandering the Gothic Graveyard in his original hometown from which he wrought such haunting images.

Footage of Elliott in the Lotus Esprit Turbo (the James Bond one), then in Paris at night and suddenly appearing against the New York skyline - it is all here - but amazingly Elliott almost takes a back seat to the images and the girls. To sum up, it is the unmistakable blend of glamour, excitement and passion which has made Elliott world class. This was the first promo video ever created by an artist.

GENERATION OF A NEW VOICE
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This video shows Elliott on top form expounding his lucid and brilliant views on photography, art and the new media. This is a slightly longer video with a running time of around 22 mins. Elliott's approach is basically to intensify his videos by eliminating the "filler" which makes so much entertainment boring.

There are some wonderful moments with Elliott laying in to modern art at full tilt and to some extent at least, giving a glimpse of an insight into this enigmatic and complex man. There are some classic one-liners and some extremely convincing arguments on the weightier issues of art.


However, the film is interspersed with much glamour and there is a marvelous glimpse of Elliott arriving at his "Sex Money and Midsummer Madness" show in London's Mayfair with Sarenna Lee, Traci Topps and a marvelous Rolls Corniche. Needless to say the paparazzi went nuts.

If your interest in photography or art extends beyond the superficial, you MUST see this video.

Incidentally, the reason for the similarity in the titles "Voice Of A New Generation" and "Generation Of A New Voice" is that the original idea was to intersperse music and speech and make a 10 minute video. Elliott eventually decided that Jean Michel Jarre's music was just too good to talk over, so he made two longer videos instead.


"Generation Of A New Voice" was mostly shot in Elliott's St John's Wood home in 1993 with additional footage shot just before the edit so that Elliott could include some of his new digital masterpieces and his views on digital art. The edit took ten days. The result is a highly original approach to Artist's videos and compulsive viewing.