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Tobias Stretch

Tobias Stretch has been creating wonderful&nbsp;films, carefully animating his self-made sculptural works (and more recently incorporating live action), for some years now. It&#39;s fully five years since his beautiful award-winning&nbsp;film for Radiohead&#39;s Weird Fishes.&nbsp;But as a combination of extraordinary imagery - and a storyline - with modern-classical track, Tobias&#39;s film to accompany&nbsp;composer Christopher Bono&#39;s choral work Unity&nbsp;could be his greatest achievement thus far. It&#39;s absolutely amazing.&#39;Masterpiece&#39; is a big, important word. But sometimes you just have to say it.Interview with Tobias about the video at <a href="http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/new-stop-motion-film-unity-is-the-work-of-a-potential-animation-legend" target="_blank">The Creator&#39;s Project&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;

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Christopher Bono 'Unity' by Tobias Stretch

Unity by Christopher Bono

More recently Tobias Stretch has moved away from the pure (and often jawdropping) stop-frame live action animation style of his early videos &ndash; which is the case with his video for Enemy Planes&rsquo; We Want Blood. But that unmistakeably otherworldly Stretch style is most definitely present.
On this low budget video, Tobias worked with actor Nathalye Barrios and then the band&rsquo;s Casey Call (also an actor) at Coney Island and Brighton Beach in New York for several days, not long after Hurricane Sandy had given it a major battering. And the couple went through various hardships to achieve the beautiful and visceral moments at the heart of this enigmatic drama.
Tobias talks about making the Enemy Planes video at <a href="http://www.directorsnotes.com/2013/03/05/enemy-planes-we-want-blood/">Director&rsquo;s Notes</a>.

Casey Call

Enemy Planes ‘We Want Blood’ by Tobias Stretch

We Want Blood - Enemy Planes

The second of Tobias Stretch&#39;s videos for UK indie band Post War Years, for Glass House, continues the extraordinary adventures of Robogranny, alien child Gorky and human heroine Arianna - whose lover, played by David Willis-Lorenz, is inside the magnificent Glass Dalek....Glass House follows the video for All Eyes - and precedes the climactic third instalment, for The Bell.

Arianna Conover, David Willis

Nick Dronick

Ryan McCluskey

Skin Flicks

Sony Music

Post War Years 'Glass House' by Tobias Stretch

Post-War-Years-'Glass-House'-by-Tobias-Stretch

The iconoclastic Tobias Stretch makes his second successive video involving real humans in this deranged fantasy for Post War Years' All Eyes, with a girl stalked by a couple of Tobias's distinctive sculpture/puppet creations... But with its highly disjointed timeline, even the strangest things are rarely what they seem.
Essentially more evidence that Tobias - whose piece de resistance for Radiohead's Weird Fishes/Arpeggi was shown at the Odeon Leicester Square on Tuesday (November 29th) as part of BUG's Radiohead special - is a completely individual and extraordinary filmmaker.

Rachel Nachmias

Jamie Rose, Nick Dronick

Post War Years 'All Eyes' by Tobias Stretch

It's a new video by Tobias Stretch, for French band Dode's Soldat II - and this one represents a notable change for the stop-motion open-air iconoclast.
Tobias has eschewed his trademark found-object sculpture-puppets to work with real people - but it remains quintessentially Stretch-like. Not least the woman's extraordinary garment.
"I used to do live action stuff years ago, it's great to get back into it - I can't wait to do another one!" says Tobias. "All the people in the video are my friends who were so kind as to hang out in the cold water long enough for me to get the shot. The costume was a textural foam surface (torn-up bits of mattress foam hot glued onto a dress) that was enhanced in post using a secret technique."

Dode 'Soldat II' by Tobias Stretch

Dode-'Soldat-II'-by-Tobias-Stretch

It's summertime, and Toby Stretch has been doing his thing once again, among the stunning vistas of the Appalachians. 
Like in his previous work this extraordinary artist tells a visually fantastic tale by animating his own puppet creations from series of individual photographs.
And in Crystal Fighters' In The Summer his hero character goes into battle with a grinning sun god. Only thing, he looks disconcertingly like LibDem sage turned hangdog Minister of Trade Vince Cable. And he has the contents of his brain scooped out by tiny puppets, which must be how Vince feels since he got his new job. A coincidence, surely...

Crystal Fighters’ In The Summer by Tobias Stretch

Crystal-Fighters’-In-The-Summer-by-Tobias-Stretch

More remarkable creations and animation by Tobias Stretch for folk-pop singer-songwriter Brian Goss. 
Featuring a characteristically unusual family, a remarkable car, and a dazzling display of flower-power...

Brian Goss’s Gig by Tobias Stretch

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It's another trademark stop-motion tour de force from Tobias Stretch. 
This is for Croatian band The Orange Strips - and this time there are real people inside Tobias's latest remarkable creations.

The Orange Strips' Song Without A Hero by Tobias Stretch

The-Orange-Strips'-Song-Without-A-Hero-by-Tobias-Stretch

After the extraordinary and wonderful work of his Aniboom-winner for Radiohead's Weird Fishes and Efterklang's Illuminant, comes the latest unmistakeable video from Tobias Stretch.
It's another tour de force, and this time Tobias has brought his puppet creations - including the tiger and the baby in the butterfly-strewn teddy outfit - to the big city for Matthias Sturm's Blood And Thunder. Where, it turns out, he discovered a whole new group of interesting animal life - as he explains below.
And Tobias is working hard on some new material, and he says, "New puppets are looking nuts!"


Tobias Stretch on making the video for Matthias Sturm's Blood And Thunder
"The video was shot in North Philly in an abandoned parking lot that had been grown over by persistent urban plant life. We had to sneak all the puppets and gear through a hole in the fence and had a drunk guy across the street keep an eye out for us.
"The night scenes were fun to shoot because while laying on the ground to do low angle shots I could feel all kinds of bugs crawling up my clothes, and when you moved around you could see giant ghetto cockroaches go scurrying into the foliage.
"I've shot mostly in the countryside with the rabbits and crickets nearby so it was interesting to shoot in the city with the rats and roaches as your nature buddies. Some people on the block said there was a giant raccoon that lived in the lot but we never saw him."

Matthias Sturm’s Blood And Thunder by Tobias Stretch

Matthias-Sturm’s-Blood-And-Thunder-by-Tobias-Stretch

The man behind the awesome video for Radiohead's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2008/12/09/bug-10-radiohead%e2%80%99s-weird-fishesarpeggi-by-tobias-stretch/">Weird Fishes/Arpeggi</a> and other amazing things, has done it again.
And this time Tobias Stretch brings his weird and wonderful creations to the city.

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