Mindphaser - FLA
this is the movie that was used in Front Line Assembly's "Mindphaser" video in 1992 and it won MTV's "Alternative Video Award Of The Year".
Very effective use of movie footage! Better edited than the actual film, for that matter! ;-)
Seriously, maybe FLA should have shared the award with Toho.
The movie was okay... but 'Mindphaser' video was awesome, but for some reason didn't get an offical release until quite recently whereas Gunhed's been available in all good bargain bins for many years.
If only they could re-edit the whole movie like that and fill it with FLA music, could the original promo director 'remix' the movie?
The film is also referenced in a William Gibson book where a guy who's involved with a cult of watching TV says it's his favourite... but the only heretical films are made by David Cronenberg :-)
I think that was in the book "Virtual Light".
Yes, I just checked Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunhed_(film)
There is a vehicle called Gunhead (spelled like that) in the book, and one of the chapters is called "Cruising with Gunhead", if memory serves well.
I heard that originally the Mindphaser vid- awesome though it was- was put together without getting any sort of clearance from the producers of Gunhed to use the footage and was therefore in copyright violation? Like I say, this was kind of a rumour and I don't know how true it is, but if so it would explain why it took until recently for it to emerge again.
shareShould update this:
I discovered that FLA did infact have permission to use the footage, but it was all done in a deal to allow the film company to use the finished video as some kind of promotional thing in Japan in exchange.