Working For Each Other - FAQ
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Q: Did Peter Jackson's AI tools make the movie?
A: No, Deep Dream Generator is entirely independent of Wētā.
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Q: Was Sir Peter involved?
A: Yes, Peter Jackson and Morgan Neville supervised the final cut.
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Q: Did Paul play bass?
A: Yes, mostly bits and pieces. Fuck The Children Of The Rich is almost entirely Paul.
So is Paramilitary Jamboree.
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Q: Did you really write the White House Blues?
A: Yes. It's a variant of Cops In The Beehive. It was my sheet music as well.
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Q: How long did it take?
A: Three months.
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Q: Aren't those backing vocals just AI?
A: No, all the voices are me. NotePerformer only did AMPP skits with synth etc.
It renders notated music, so I actually wrote all the music that isn't someone else's.
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Q: Did Paul sing?
A: Yes, he sang one note in Moments Flow.
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Q: Why am I so compelled by these film loops?
A: It's called entrainment. Working For Each Other has several loop/sound layers that move asynchronously, occasionally aligning.
This is much more effective than most methods. Like a polyrhythm that's also visual.
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Q: What do you think the film is about?
A: Well, it was born out of my job interview/acid trip with Sir Paul, so I'd say that our film is a deconstruction of the postmodern view of the interconnected world.
It shows how easy it is to essentialise people via the media etc.
Like all of our Imagine trilogy, it posits a better future.
Shortly before Christmas last year, I took acid with a mate of mine. While taking the bus back to my boarding house, it became clear that Paul wanted to chat. I'd been pitching Beatles Invade New Zealand for a couple of weeks by then. My mate said something cryptic about 'sometimes it happens twice in a lifetime...' - Paul was in the UK. The spies wanted to see if we could chat across the globe. He started whispering in my ear, as he does, and we were off to the races.