Creative Director

James Merry

Jesse Kanda&rsquo;s extraordinary video for Bjork&rsquo;s Arisen My Senses&nbsp;chronicles her emergence&nbsp;from a semi-translucent chrysalis-like entity.Following <a href="https://www.creativereview.co.uk/record-sleeves-of-the-year-2017/" target="_blank">his amazing design for the cover for Bjork&#39;s latest album utopia</a>, Kanda was inspired by visions of strange natural phenomena for the third video taken from the album, and collaborated with SFX maestro and propmaker Tristan Schoonraad&nbsp;to create the amazing alien embryo.&nbsp;Read an article about the making of Jesse Kanda&#39;s video for Bjork&#39;s Arisen My Senses - also featuring the producer Arca &ndash; at <a href="https://wetransfer.com/thisworks/studios/wetransfer-presents-arisen-my-senses-a-video-by-bjork-and-jesse-kanda/?utm_source=bjork-social&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=bjork&amp;utm_content=website-link" target="_blank">WeTransfer</a>.

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Jesse Kanda

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Juliette Larthe

Hannah May

Tom Manaton

Ella Knight

Bryony James

Rina Yang

Thom Nicolson

Neil Blakesley

Craig Davis

Arthur De Borman

Tristan Schoonrad

Lifecast

Ben Schofield

Mark Francome

Andrew Gallimore

Leila Sarraf

Trim Editing

Joseph Bicknell

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Bjork 'Arisen My Senses' by Jesse Kanda

björk: arisen my senses

Two years on from the release of Vulnicura, Björk is still producing visual gems to accompany tracks from the album, and supplying new variations on what has gone before. In the case of Notget, Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton-Jones have already directed a VR experience for the song, but now here comes a more cinematic version.It is delightful, perhaps the best visual accompaniment to anything on Vulnicura.&nbsp;Beautifully costumed, as always, In the first black and white section of the video, Bjork threatens to metamorph into a giant moth-like creature.The second half is in colour, where the directors distinctive vision fully comes into play: a combination of pulsating flourescent pinks and yellows against humming darkness to frame Bjork in a remarkable headress/mask, designed by her and fellow creative James Merry. Fabulous.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Nick Thornton Jones

Warren Du Preez

Campbell Beaton

Beaton Black & Blue

W & N Studio

Björk

John Mathieson

Wicked Pixels

Owen Oppenheimer

The Quarry

Simona Cristea

Rushes

Joseph Bennett

Martin Cullen

Björk 'notget' by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

Bjork-'Not-Get'-by-Warren-Du-Preez-And-Nick-Thornton-Jones

Björk&#39;s VR film finally gets an adapted music video release to the wider world and, of course, it&#39;s a treat.Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones&#39; work is a display of CGI fireworks and transformative explosions of colour and light - even in a non-VR context, it&#39;s still a sensory delight. A CGI Björk sings and dances as she seemingly changes form in a world which darkness envelops, but lightness begins to penetrate and alter.No stranger to VR, after her 360 Stonemilker video a few years back, Björk&#39;s always managed to push boundaries in visual media. It&#39;s just a shame we&#39;ve had to wait so long to see it.

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

Analog Studios

Björk 'Notget VR' by Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones

Björk 'Notget VR'

She was briefly wrongfooted by having to rush its release a few weeks ago, but now&nbsp;the visual campaign for Björk&#39;s new album Vulnicura is in full swing, taking shape in a characteristically unconventional fashion. And it&nbsp;looks like she&#39;s established a collaboration with a super-talented director to rival her long-term creative relationship with Michel Gondry.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her work with Andrew Thomas Huang began with the video for&nbsp;Mutual Core from her last album, Biophilia. Now on Vulnicura, they have created <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXQ5qaUGDI" target="_blank">the &#39;sound and vision installation&#39; for Black Lake</a> - shown in a special auditorium at the current Bjork exhibition&nbsp;at MoMA in New York. They have also created a &#39;virtual reality&#39; video for Stonemilker, also showing at MoMA PS1, and at Rough Trade record shops in London and Brooklyn.&nbsp;And also this.&nbsp;The video for the track Family&nbsp;is&nbsp;described as a &#39;moving album cover&#39; for Vulnicura (slightly confusing, as it&#39;s actually a lot less like the album cover shot than the video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/03/16/bj%C3%B6rk-lionsong-inez-vinoodh" target="_blank">Lionsong</a> by Inez and Vanoodh). But in effect Huang uses his considerable multi-disciplinary talents to build the Björk universe from scratch, starting in CGI and then merging into live action.It&#39;s&nbsp;not just creation, but a kind of regeneration, as we begin to distinguish a&nbsp;figure, prone on a&nbsp;rock and split down the middle. This becomes Bjork, lying on a rock within a familiar Icelandic landscape,&nbsp;and repeats the&nbsp;visual motif from the other Vulnicura videos&nbsp;of a small exposed area of chest, symbolic of a damaged heart.It finishes with a symbolic CGI-enhanced repair job, indicating how the healing process continues - an uplifting message, that draws the viewer into the wonderful world created by Björk - and Andrew Thomas Huang.&nbsp;

James Merry

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