Seasons’ “Of Our Discontent” is a low budget, CG-infused, shot-in-LA mini-movie about Vera (Mahaley Manning of “Easy A”), a girl with speakers in her skin and no volume knob to control the music she’s constantly emitting. Vera’s “electro-acoustically challenged” condition is deeply unsettling, but she eventually finds a soulmate during a nightly downtown stroll. “The … Continued
If you missed our “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” screenings at the Lowlands Festival or MU gallery, you are cordially invited to tune in, turn on, and drop out with the selected videos using these two 2Pause “New Psychedelica” playlists. Groovy! Read more about our “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” program.
Doudouboy is a French illustrator and animator whose mysterious short Magic Lantern Deluxe (here on Vimeo) was featured on the Best of Submarine Channel DVD. FFWD> to 2011. 2Pause features Doudouboy’s latest music video, “made together with my girlfriend John Deneuve,” Doudouboy writes in an email. (John is not a boy. We checked). “She’s an … Continued
No, this is not an Edvard Munch painting, or an undiscovered Van Gogh (from his “Potato Eaters” period). Blown Minded is a seriously mind-blowing (pun!), as well as turbulently expressive music video done by a painter-photographer by the name of Carine Khalifé. Khalifé uses painting combined with stop-motion animation. The poetically meandering analogue brush strokes … Continued
We’re tripping with joy over the fact that our 2Pause curated collection of bedazzling new psychedelic music videos will be screened in a 60-minute session at the equally psycho-sensational Lowlands Festival this year. “New Psychedelica in Music Videos” is our humble ode to a new-found interest in the psychedelic visuals which are becoming increasingly apparent … Continued
“Fucking hell. My country’s going down the pan,” said music video director Ceri Frost on his Facebook Wall early this morning, as a response to the UK riots that are spreading like wildfire across the UK. Even if you’re nowhere near Tottenham, or any of the other urban war zones, you might still be indirectly … Continued
If only the blessings of modern motion graphic wizardy were around in the golden oldies era to help create the visual representation that some songs deserve. Video archives seem to be busting at the seams with soulful tunes that only ever had dismal recordings of live performances to serve as their music video equivalent. Luckily, … Continued
Björk stepped out of her comfort zone – if you can call it that – by adding the fascinating realm of musical interactivity to her signature mix of music, art, fashion and performance. The Icelandic siren beckons you into her evocative nebula of vector-esque graphics, where you create your own soundscapes by manipulating Björk’s musical … Continued
If you thought that David Wilson had just about explored every single nook and cranny of his uber-creative brain (see his strata-cut, Garden of Eden love-story, face-painting stop-motion, praxinoscoped life evolution circles, or these insanely psychedelic animations), then think again. Wilson returns to 2Pause with two music videos that are galaxies apart. Charon is a … Continued
We added, not one, or two, but twelve of Andy Bruntel’s magical promos to our music video collection 2Pause. That’s a dozen, dear! Why Bruntel? Because the man has mastered the art of telling suspenseful, absurd and sometimes cruel, but always emotionally-super-effective stories within the confines of the 3 to 5-minute time span of a … Continued
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