A wonderfully subversive little number from Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling – aka Becky and Joe – for New Zealand band Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s rather lovely Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark), which involving a man trying to find something more rewarding than surreptiously peeping at naked girls – told through the medium of puppetry. [...]
A collaboration between Natasha Khan and animation/mixed media master Peter Sluszka has resulted in this diverse and absorbing visual feast for Bat For Lashes’ Lilies – the fourth single from the critically acclaimed album The Haunted Man: life-sized puppets, a flock of 2D spirits, miniature landscapes, morphing polygons, and Natasha herself were animated to create [...]
Ever wonder what your lost socks get up to when they go missing? Vicky Simmons puts forward one possible theory in her promo for Shields’ Mezzanine. In Vicky’s charming and amusing promo for the Newcastle five-piece, her sock-puppets form a band, fall in love, cheat, have a domestic, get mauled by a cat and end [...]
Keaton Henson has made lovely, devastatingly sad visual accompaniments to his achingly melancholic music before – and that’s exactly the case with his video for Small Hands. It just happens that Joseph Mann has picked up the baton from David Wilson to become Keaton’s new collaborator, and has created something stunning with his first ever [...]
Chris Keenan and Steven Spencer deliver this utterly charming puppetry and animation promo for Goodnight Lenin’s organic acoustic ballad Wenceslas Square. The Birmingham band act as puppet masters for the marionette lovers as they journey through the seasons. Director Chris Keenan explains the process behind the production: “Collaborating with animator and co-director Steven Spencer, we [...]
Lo-Fi People’s utterly charming stop motion promo for animated trio Milgrom attempts to unravel the dilemma all ambitious pop musicians face – how to keep a grip on reality… Milgrom Boy Director/Editor/Animator: Lo-Fi People Milgrom official website
The cool synthpop of French electronic duo Gentleman Drivers’ Valdor is interpreted as a part-suburban American nightmare, part-Sesame Street-style puppet workout by Allen Cordell – who has previously directed vids for the likes of Beach House, Dan Deacon, Tobacco and Cloud Nothings. And as a result it’s, well, completely bonkers… Gentlemen Drivers Valdor (Because Music) [...]
In the video for illustrator and musician Keaton Henson’s fragile lament Charon, a puppet character slides towards a final release by his own hand – not the happiest of subjects, in all honesty, but invested with wonder and no little creativity – as you’d expect from David Wilson, working here with John Malcolm Moore and [...]
An amazing video by Guy Verge Wallace, a 19 year old student from Sydney who has singlehandedly created a lifesize puppet family consuming a monstrous meal while conducting a war between digital and analogue in the process, for Aussie band Papa Vs Pretty’s Wrecking Ball. This extraordinary five month labour of love – filmed entirely [...]
Lorcan Finnegan’s video for Irish artist Cathy Davey’s Little Red, features a somewhat creepy (but nice) mixture of paper cut-outs, hand animated puppets and live action composited together in After Effects and shot on the Canon 7D. Cathy Davey Little Red Director: Lorcan Finnegan Producer: Brunella Cocchiglia DP: Ivan McCulloch/Lorcan Finnegan Design/Edit/Effects/Compositing/Grade: Lorcan Finnegan Little [...]
