Swedish Eye Candy
Stockholm's freshest animation studio Filmtecknarna has created one of the most excellent music videos I've seen in a long while -
"Take Me Out" - for the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. It's directed by Jonas Odell. The video, in addition to being highly entertaining, is jammed with all manner of references to early modernist art movements such as Dada, Surrealism and Constructivism; in one shot there'll be a De Chirico-esque background, in the next a pulsating El Lissitzky-inspired construction. Says Odell from a studio press release, "The band referenced a lot of artists and groups of the DADA movement, and all this is stuff that I always loved, but never found a chance to incorporate in a project, so naturally this was a dream project to work on. I dived headlong into the sea of art history and emerged at the other side soaked in references, trying to figure out ways of turning this into a contemporary piece, but the wonderful thing about this period in art is that it does feel completely modern. It is all about the moment, and it still feels very 'now.'" After you're done seeing the video, check out more of the studio's work at
Filmtecknarna.com.
Posted by AMID at July 21, 2004 06:59 AM
