Benjamin Scheuer – Cookie-Tin Banjo
A father makes a cookie-tin banjo to give to his son, and with it the gift of music.
Animated Music Videos
85 minutes
What do Stromae, The Prodigy, and Faberyayo have in common? Despite catering to very different audiences, all of them turned to animation to bring their music to glorious life on screen. So put on your dancing shoes, we’ve got all the best new animated music videos.
This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015
Showing in this program
Bleep Bloop – Feel the Cosmos
Feel the cosmos visualizes the sound of Californian based music producer Beep Bloop in which it appears that animals are speaking the notes.
Bovska – The Man With An Unknown Soul
A girl meets a Bear. They become close friends, but with time parting ways is not an easy task. Based on and inspired by the series called "Bear Me" directed by Kasia Wilk.
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Captain of the Lost Waves – Another Planet
Musical storytelling from the Captain of the Lost Waves.
A surreal whizz across space and time.
Join the Tallest Man, the girl with the walking suitcase and guitar man Robert Johnson on their quest for life beyond planet earth.
Daniela Spector – All Beautiful Things
A young woman struggles to fend off the water entering her house.
The tide rises and falls as the water flows in and out of the house and the reflections in the water reveal a different world.
The reflection of the woman takes off on her own into the other world, and ends up returning to a changed reality.
Dom Hurley – Forests
Dom Hurley – “Forests” off of the 2015 release “Easy EP”
ROARK had the pleasure of collaborating with upcoming producer Dom Hurley on a music video to promote his latest EP release “Easy”. Hurley is an artist / producer / songwriter from Bend, Oregon currently living and working in Nashville, Tennessee.
Story Development
The project started out with a conversation between Dom Hurley and Adrian
DVA – No Survi
When souls which have forgot frivolity
in lowliness,noting the fatal flight
of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream
E. E. Cummings
Elliot The Bull – Colourblind
Two creatures born into a world of light and dark struggle to find balance with each other.
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Faberyayo X Tom Trago – Deep Inside XTC Forest
An ambitious video project, created, developed and directed by Amsterdams own: Illustrator Sasa Ostoja & animator Jan Jesse Bakker.
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Heavyball – Smalltown Boy
Animation live action fusion featuring Heavyball band members and animated animal avatars.
A new twist on 80's Bronski Beat classic Smalltown Boy. "The best cover version of Smalltown Boy I have ever heard" Jimmy Somerville.
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Jana Kirschner – Spirit of the City
Official Music Video for Jana Kirschner
Keith Canvas – Little Bird
Happiness is like a butterfly: if you pursue it too hard you'll never catch him
Les Pires – Owl Me Tender
Animated music video for the song "Owl me tender" recorded by french band "Les Pires" back in 1994. This record became really popular in animation community. 20 animators from 10 different cities around the world united in 2014 to create an animation jam based on this song.
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Max & Laura Braun – Plea
A song by Max & Laura Braun, a lovers darkly tender plea to let secrets be secrets and to live in the moment provides the point of departure for the associative, morphing transition. The figures, dark and light creatures, like dreams and nightmares continuously shape-shift, combine into new forms, grow, separate and disappear.
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Miaoux Miaoux – Luxury Discovery
Official video for "Luxury Discovery" by Miaoux Miaoux.
The new OMG Mega Mall has just opened and the people can’t wait to get hold of the luxuries it has to offer. Once inside they are transfixed, lusting after more, and unable to leave. Hooked on their rampant consumerism and oblivious to the monstrous cost of their greed, they are left at the mercy of the capitalist machine.
Nils Frahm – Re
Elegance and beauty combine wonderfully in Balazs Simon's creation for Nils Frahm's Re.
Nature and concrete clash as a stag's environment becomes ever more enclosed, while Nils Frahm's classical-electronic composition glides on.
Nobody Beats the Drum – Let It Go
A man leaves his stressful work life to go on an adventure through Planet Tropicana. Official music video for Nobody Beats The Drum
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Oh La Lah
“Oh La Lah” is an animated music video celebrate the New Year. It is a sarcastic Egyptian adaptation of the classical “Jingle Bells” song, The song is performed by three old men drives a boat that float on sewage representing the voice of hope and encouraging youth not to give up and keep fighting for their dreams, despite the surrounding corruption.
Shaking Godspeed – She’s Young
"She's Young" works as a ever-morphing tapestry; despite the multiplication of the feminines apparitions, from the teasing seductivelong-haired figure to the heroïc amazones fighting against the forces of nature, the lyrics to "She's Young" tell about one and only women, the muse of the guitariste/vocalist Wout Kemkens.
Stromae – Carmen
This film for the Belgian artist Stromae accompanies his track 'Carmen' and was directed and designed by 4 time Academy Nominee, Sylvain Chomet. Sylvain’s storyline, developed with Stromae and another French artist Orelsan tells of the danger of the coming Tweetpocalypse.
Témé Tan – Looper
When the night is falling down, it's the time where all of the animals going out and make a crazy party !
The Embla – Okky Luck
Alien boy and his lover are texting, but his mobile phone dies in a very bad moment. Alien boy decides to ride on the wings of love towards his lover and reply on his message.
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The Kik – Cupido
The main character has been hit by Cupid's arrow and he falls in love with a girl. Unfortunately she's already in love with someone else. This makes him question Cupid's ways and doubts his existence.
The Prodigy – Wild Frontier
While camping in the woods Nelson discovers the true meaning of dualism.
WILD FRONTIER is a music video for The Prodigy.
