Watching this video could be bad for your Elf(man)
Set in a deranged, hyperkinetic virtual world, the promo for Danny Elfman's latest track Insects might make you bug out.
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Credits
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- Director Sam Rolfes
- DP Timothy Saccenti
- Producer Dina Chang
- Creative Director Berit Gwendolyn Gilma
- Music, Lyrics & Produced Danny Elfman
- Audio Mixer Noah Snyder
Credits
powered by
- Director Sam Rolfes
- DP Timothy Saccenti
- Producer Dina Chang
- Creative Director Berit Gwendolyn Gilma
- Music, Lyrics & Produced Danny Elfman
- Audio Mixer Noah Snyder
You know Danny Elfman. The cheery composer who gave Tim Burton films their cheekily gothic vibes. The charming singing voice of the Xmas-loving Jack Skellington. The... er... robotic, bug-quishing rage monster in this music video.
Not for the faint-hearted (or photo-sensitive epilepsy sufferers), Insects sees Mr Elfman's frantic track delivered in an over-vibrant, eyeball-assaulting virtual world.
Directed by Sam and Andy Rolfes, the video was created by digitally puppeteering over 80 contorted creatures in VR, brought to terrifying life within the game-engine-generated digital world.
“In the beginning of 2020 I was preparing a live show for Coachella," says Elfman on the development of the track. "I’d been looking for old Boingo songs that connected to the dystopian nightmare I found myself immersed in at that moment in time living in America.
"As I played around with different songs it occurred to me that ‘Insects’ made sense. Who were the ‘Insects,’ the bloodsuckers of today? It was obvious to me - they all hived together in Washington and seemed to thrive on sucking the rational sense of reality out of our brains.”
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