Rising star director Oscar Hudson strings together 10 actors in 18 rooms with only two long tracking shots, one edit and zero VFX in this music video for the new Bonobo track “No Reason” – designed to give claustrophobics the bends. [Watch]
Dark, dreamlike and superbly crafted, this music video by Marseille motion designer Joseph Blanc for “This Mess Won’t Make Itself” by London indie pop group Dead Seem Old, toys with and then eradicates the boundary between 2D and 3D. [Watch]
Here’s a little counter-programming for inauguration day 2017, a snappy two-minute peek at the 31 new animation, VFX and design projects included in Stash 121 and now part of the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
Paris VFX/animation and sound design studio Pilule & Pigeon teams with French animator/director Axel Digoix (“Despicable Me 2”, “The Little Prince”) for a melancholy but beautifully drafted music video called “Tenere Taqqal” by Grammy-winning Saharan band Tinariwen. [Watch]
The first case of motion marijuana on Stash arrives appropriately as this crazed music video, a multimedia-fest created by Tal Zagreba, Robert Moreno and Daniel Sasson for “Legal Eyes,” a track from Israeli artists Hadag Nahash and Infected Mushroom. [Watch]
Most often fueled by passion rather than proper budgets, music videos are the wild west of media genres – a place where passion and promise more than compensate for a director’s lack of experience or connections, or both. Have a look at the nine most intriguing examples Stash published this year. [Watch]
