Push It
Released: 16 April 1998
Shot: Atlanta, Georgia (USA), March 1998
Director: Andrea Giacobbe
Effects: Sebasten Caudron
Artistic Director: Virginia Lee
Director of Photography: Max Malkin
Make Up: Gina Monaci & Jeff Judd
Trivia:
- The highly post-effect treated video featured Shirley and a number of other characters in a weird storyline.
- It reportedly cost $400,000 USD to make.
- The video is notable for being one of the first videos that features "bullet-time" (a rotating camera that captures a subject in mid-motion (another one being being "Army of Me" by Bjork). This effect was later popularized by the hit film The Matrix.
Appointments:
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Video of a Group (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Alternative Video (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Most Innovating Video (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Direction of Art (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Edition (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Cinematography (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Direction (nomination)
MTV Video Music Awards 1998: Best Special Effects (nomination)
MTV Europe Music Awards 1998: Best Video (nomination)
I Think I'm Paranoid
Released: July 1998
Shot: London (UK), May 1998
Director: Matthew Rolston
Production: Mars Average
Director of Photography: Max Malkin
Trivia:
- The video concept was to be, according to Shirley "very simple, almost photographic... and then we just got bored. I flashed my knickers and stuck my fist in my mouth!"
- After release the video was edited slightly to soften the focus on certain strobing lights within the video.
Special
Released: October 1998
Shot: London (UK), August 1998
Director: Dawn Shadforth
Production: Black Dog Films
Producers:Anna Brunoro, John Payne
Special Effects: Shawn Broughton, Stuart Gordon, Paul Simpson
Trivia:
- The music video features a SF battle in a computer generated background between Shirley as Queen Astarte and the band members as their enemies.
- The script from the beginning of "Special" music video:
"In the year 3030, Queen Astarte has taken to the skies to defend her once peaceful homeland from the evil lords of Garbania, who seek to rule the world. She has but the last chance to thwart their wicked plan..."
- Part of the production equipment also participated in Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Appointments:
MTV Video Music Awards 1999: Best Special Effects (won)
MTV Video Music Awards 1999: Best Direction of Art (nomination)
Vh1 Fashion Awards 1999: Visionary Video (won)
When I Grow Up
Released: February 1999 (Live Version), July 1999 (Studio Version)
Shot:
- Live Version: Indianapolis (Indiana), Madison (Wisconsin), St. Louis (Missouri), November 1998
- Movie Version and Studio Version: May 1999
Director: Sophie Muller
Production: Oil Factory
Trivia:
- Two videos were shot for "When I Grow Up," both directed by Sophie Muller.
- The first was recorded live in November 1998 and was broadcast in the UK and Europe.
- The second was filmed in May 1999 and was a studio filmed performance clip, and incorporated footage from the movie Big Daddy. It was broadcast in the US and Australia to accompany the release of that movie. An edit of the video without movie footage was also released.
Live Version
Movie Version
Studio Version
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
Released: 1999
Shot: Indianapolis (Indiana), Madison (Wisconsin), St. Louis (Missouri), November 1998
Director: Sophie Muller
Production: Oil Factory
Trivia:
Footage for the video was shot at the same time as shooting for the "When I Grow Up" music video.
You Look So Fine
Released: April 1999
Shot: Los Angeles (USA), February 1999
Director: Stéphane Sednaoui
Producer: Stephanie Bruni
Editor: Chris Hafner
Special Effects 2D: Alex Frisch, Andrew Eksner, Chris Staves, Scott McNiel
Special Effects 3D: Laurent Briet
Trivia:
The video for "You Look So Fine" features The Surfers' frontman Kelly Slater as the man whom in the video Shirley finds washed up on the shores of her small world.
The World Is Not Enough
Released: 23 October 1999
Shot: London (UK), September 1999
Director: Philipp Stolzl
Producer: Hilary Davis
Production: Oil Factory
Editor: Sven Budelmann
Director of Photography: John Mathieson
Trivia:
- The song's promotional video features a plot set in 1964 which involves scientists cloning singer Shirley Manson on an unnamed Pacific island. The clone is an android replica of Manson whom, in true Bond style, has the ability to kill her enemies with a single kiss. She has also been fitted with an explosive device that is set prior to leaving on her mission.
- The android Manson makes her way through the storyline; killing one male research subject with her fatal kiss, then driving to the fictional Chicago New Globe Theater and killing the real Shirley Manson with another kiss. The android Manson then impersonates the real Manson on stage with Garbage whilst her bomb is ticking down to zero. Manson plays both the android and herself in the video, and in one scene kisses a look-alike model acting as her double.
- The promotional video for the single was produced by Oil Factory films, directed by Philipp Stolzl and shot in Black Island Studios, London on a two-day shooting schedule taking place on September 23 and 24 September 1999. Shooting most of Shirley Manson's android scenes (laboratory scene, both kissing scenes and her driving scene) took place on the first day of shooting; the rest of the band joined Manson for the stage, globe and pyrotechnic scenes on the second day. Post-production and editing was completed over the following two weeks.
- The driving scene features Shirley driving a BMW Z8, the Bond car from the movie.
Original Version
Movie Version
