This one nearly slipped past our radar. Directed by Alexis Beaumont and Rémi Godin, this music video for Stuck in the Sound’s “Let’s Go” is a tragic odyssey that follows one very determined man as he pursues his childhood dream to be an astronaut. Normally, odysseys conclude with a triumphant voyage home. Not so in this case.
Don’t be fooled by the gritty, lo-fi aesthetic. There’s brilliance in Beaumont and Godin’s vision. The transitions, pacing and odd use of photographic elements provide regular bursts of novelty, keeping you engaged for the entire strange trip.
Beaumont and Godin previously worked together as animators on The Rabbi’s Cat, a feature film based on a popular comic strip in France.
Shortly after we were musing on the state of storytelling for emerging virtual reality platforms here on Motionographer, the National Film Board of Canada released Way to Go, a 360-degree virtual walk through the woods — filtered through a sheet of LSD. As you pilot a block-headed, hand-drawn avatar through the experience, you…
France continues to kill it in the music video world as seen in this latest piece of greatness, an un-offical video for The Thunderclaps called Tudor Petru. In collaboration with WIZZ, this animation collective (Remi Bastie, Nicolas Dehghani, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Nicolas Pegon and Jérémy Pires) are still students at…
