David Blaine: Vertigo (2002) (TV)

Directors:

Michael Dimich
Jacob Septimus
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Writers:

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Release Date:

22 May 2002 (USA)

Plot:

David Blaine does it again. With 'Vertigo', we see some more incredible magic and unusual illusions...

Plot Keywords:

Street Magician

Cast

David Blaine	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jim Moret	...	Host

Directed by
Michael Dimich		(live segments)
Jacob Septimus		(segment director)
David Blaine		(uncredited)
Troy Miller		(uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
David Blaine		uncredited
Troy Miller		uncredited
Jacob Septimus		uncredited

Produced by
Tracey Baird	....	associate producer
David Blaine	....	executive producer
Bill Kalush	....	co-executive producer
William Kalush	....	co-executive producer
Bruce Klassen	....	producer
Troy Miller	....	executive producer
Tom Sherren	....	co-executive producer

Film Editing by
Kabir Akhtar
Michael Z. Wechsler

Art Direction by
Dan Butts

Production Management
Donna Suchan	....	production manager

Sound Department
James Krieger	....	post-production audio mixer
Dana Mark McClure	....	sound mixer
Brian Riordan	....	post audio mixer

Stunts
Bob Brown	....	stunt coordinator

Other crew
Michael Dimich	....	show director
David Genova	....	production assistant
Michelle Hall	....	script coordinator
Tamar Kuznick	....	production coordinator
Raegan Matthews	....	assistant to producers
Chuck Reilly	....	technical manager

Production Companies

• Dakota North Entertainment
• Dakota Pictures

Distributors

• Virgil Films & Entertainment (2013) (USA) (video)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Dakota North Entertainment

Blaine Does It Again

Yes, there may be other magicians and illusionists with more technical skill, but David Blaine has what Houdini had--style.

David proves again that it's not so much what you do as how you do it. Fortunately, Blaine has a very positive vibration, which helps him to communicate to a broad public. In his Vertigo, all he does is stand still in one place without a break for 35 hours. That in itself is unusual, but perched outside on an 80-foot pole with diameter of about a two feet, that's something else!

That it's in mid Manhattan adds to the "stunt." In a city where everything's "a-go-go" all the time, this is an act of defiance--or revelation.

What does it mean? Whatever one wants it to. For instance, "he's crazy" and "he's nuts," to some people; and "he's great" and "he's incredible" to others.

However, the people come out, representing all walks of life. Everyone can comprehend a person standing erect on a 80-foot pole. One doesn't need to speak a certain language, be a member of a particular organization, fall into a specific socio-economic class, or be a certain age.

Just one look up there, and every person is instantly united: a commonality is established. That's what music was supposed to do, but it doesn't seem to any more. That "universal language" has been thwarted with the influx of vastly diverging musical tastes.

But David, standing on that narrow post, so high as to be a tiny silhouette, unties. In his other TV special of street magic he went all over the U.S., ending up in the remotest point of the heretofore unexplored Amazon jungle, doing tricks for the natives, young and old. There was no need for verbal communication: he just showed them, and they understood and responded with amazement.

That's the significance of David Blaine's Vertigo. For 35 hours people came together mentally, emotionally and spiritually in a common bond of fascination and wonder.