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Radiohead video filmed without a camera

Published Tuesday, Jul 15 2008, 07:36 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Radiohead video filmed without a camera

Rex Features

The video for Radiohead's next single has been made without a camera.

The group's promo for 'House Of Cards' was created by director James Frost using 3-D and radar technologies.

A form of motion capture, Geometric Informatics uses light to capture image detail at close quarters and map the data onto 3-D models.

Velodyne Lidar is described as a new form of radar. It operates by shooting laser pulses 900 times per minute in a 360-degree radius to map large environments.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said in a statement: "I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle to get your head around what you can do with it.

"I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points - and how strangely emotional it ended up being."

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