1984

“This movie’s a film that had a big influence on me. It’s 1984. The Eurythmics did the soundtrack for it. It was one of the best Eurythmics records. It has this really beautiful song called “Julia.” It’s almost a sort of industrial-sounding soundtrack at times. These ideas in the book 1984 are really expressed visually in the film, about the dread of surveillance. And this film now to watch will probably confuse young people because the baseline of expectation of privacy has eroded.”

“We are going to get into 1984. This film, 1984, along with Metropolis, Fritz Lang's German expressionist film, both of these films have absolutely inspired my work as a concept artist especially on the music side. When I think about 1984 and what it said then to what it says now, it is still relevant. It talks about surveillance culture, it talks about the totalitarian societies and what happens when power goes unchecked.”