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Rosie Lea Brind

Chris Hopewell&#39;s second video for Father John Misty, after the MVA-winning film for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/08/08/father-john-misty-things-it-would-have-been-helpful-know-revolution-chris-hopewell" target="_blank">Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution</a>,&nbsp;is another extraordinary voyage of discovery. This time it&#39;s Father John (aka Josh Tillman)&nbsp;who finds himself on a journey, with very ominous implications.&nbsp;We find Josh in his hotel room, the morning after a night of debauchery, as a&nbsp;typically autobiographical lyric, reflects upon the effects of a full-on rock and roll lifestyle. But soon he&#39;s falling into&nbsp;the Netherworld below, being guided across the River Styx by a big guy in a black hood...Needless to say, Josh&#39;s journey, his observations of waltzing skeletons and eventual arrival at&nbsp;his own grave, to be dragged further below,&nbsp;are rendered in Hopewell&#39;s trademark style - gorgeous stop-motion animation, with beautifully crafted set of characters in a world painstakingly created in his Bristol-based Jacknife Studios. Wonderful stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Tom Weller

Black Dog Films

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Father John Misty 'Please Don't Die' by Chris Hopewell

Father John Misty - "Please Don't Die" [Official Music Video]

Father John Misty&#39;s audacious merging of Tiny Dancer-era Elton John with the Apocalypse has been rewarded with this marvellous stop motion-animated video by Chris Hopewell.For Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution, Hopewell visualises an account from the other side of the great apocalyptic event that has destroyed civilisation, using puppets. A survivor trawls through a devastated landscape collecting the once-prized, now useless objects of our current age, encountering other strange survivors - like beer-slugging cockroaches in denim jackets - on her travels.It took Hopewell - who has made a comeback to music video since his Radiohead video for Burn The Witch last year - and his small team in his Bristol-based studio Jacknife just three weeks to construct&nbsp;and film the video. It has been partnered by the <a href="https://www.edf.org/" target="_blank">Environmental Defense Fund</a>, and from August 3rd to the 11th, the puppets in the video are being auctioned on <a href="http://www.ebay.com/usr/fatherjohnmistyofficial" target="_blank">Father John Misty&#39;s eBay page</a>, to raise money for EDF.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Father John Misty&#39;s new video is a powerful statement -- a postcard from a world we never want to visit,&quot; said ​Eric Pooley, senior vice president at Environmental Defense Fund,&nbsp;in a statement accompanying the release of the video. &quot;That&#39;s why EDF is proud to partner with Father John Misty, and why we work every day to catalyze the &#39;visionaries among us&#39; who can help forge a better, more optimistic future. For 50 years, EDF has driven innovative solutions that help people and nature prosper. We use cutting edge science and technology and unexpected alliances to scale positive change. We&#39;re earning our middle name every day, and we&#39;re so grateful to Father John Misty for his support.&quot;&nbsp;

Bill Pollock

Bonch

Molly Bohas /Collide Inc.

Sub Pop

Father John Misty 'Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution' by Chris Hopewell

Father John Misty - Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Chris Hopewell reunites with Radiohead - for whom he made the video for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQSLozK7aA" target="_blank">There There</a> back in 2003 - for the video for Burn The Witch, a beautifully executed recreation of the classic children&#39;s TV shows Camberwick Green and Trumpton, with the storylines of other, far more disquieting British productions of the late 1960s - Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man.The treatment may well have had the compelling brevity of the one for Alien (which was famously pitched as &quot;Jaws in space&#39;). But only time will tell whether it was quite that straightforward. With Radiohead removing their social media sites and then posting messages to fans before the video&#39;s release (&lsquo;Sing the&nbsp;song of sixpence that goes&nbsp;burn the witch&rsquo;&nbsp;and &lsquo;We know where you live&rsquo;) there is the distinct possibility this is the opening salvo of the band&#39;s bigger message. We shall see.In the meantime, this is a welcome return to music video directing for Chris Hopewell, who created this wonderful rendition of the stop-motion style pioneered by Gordon Murray and animators&nbsp;John Hardwick and Bob Bura, out of his own Bristol-based studio Jacknife. As he has been spending much of his time designing posters, its a return as surprising as it is welcome.[imgtoken data:1]

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