Ewan Jones Morris creates a grand, utterly absorbing theatrical event for the first single from composer Anna Meredith's latest album - all from the comfort of his shed. It's ingenious - and nothing artificial was used here.

The video for Dusky - from Meredith's forthcoming album DARLING - is a seven minute extravaganza that echoes some great early animation classics. And Jones Morris is keen to emphasise that this is very much a handmade affair, employing a variety of old school animation techniques. 

He has worked a few times before for the Scottish musician, and usually incorporating live action into his wonderfully imaginative videos - most notably with Paramour, which has a set-up with a Lego train to rival an OK Go video. But this time it was all done in his shed - and that must have been quite a mess by the end of this process.

"Dusky is a track that really demands your attention. This is of course true of all of Anna's music, but I think especially so with Dusky. In an ideal world I'd make a seven minute theatrical production, with a legion of masked performers and some over the top set design that completely transforms every couple of minutes. This is the old man in a garden shed version of that.

"Obviously it's all thrown together in a computer but every element was handmade from plasticine or cut out with a scalpel and stuck on a stick and puppeteered by me. I’m hoping people actually making stuff with their hands still garners some attention. (Insert comment about creativity, AI and state of the world).

"The curtains and doors came from a chat with Anna, the idea that Dusky is a journey through portals into increasingly unexpected rooms. Just when you think you’ve reached the climax, you find yourself somewhere new. I added in the faces probably because I was visibly terrified of making a 7 minute visual accompaniment to an increasingly impossible track. I liked the idea of a different emotional state triggered by each section of the track.

"The end result is this theatrical game of peekaboo, hopefully fun and continuously surprising, and in the spirit of Dusky."