New York director Kris Mercado talks to Stash about smashing together dot matrix printers, cel animation, found footage, live action, and stop motion to conjure a certain low-fi chaos he calls “retro funk weirdness” for rap legend Kool Keith and young hip-hop producer L’Orange.
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Now in its fifth year, the fast-rising Berlin Fashion Film Festival offers you a unique and prestigious showcase for all your design and style-heavy projects including lifestyle, fashion and beauty work for the travel, hotel, food, drink and automobile industries. [Watch]
Turning rock stars into motion-captured dancing apes will cause both snickers and shudders in some quarters, but UK director Mat Whitecross lets fun trump any and all artistic concerns in his new Coldplay video with Andy Serkis in charge of MC and Mathematic creating the CG chimps and their jungle environment. [Watch]
Otto, the European online retail behemoth, joins this year’s parade of heart-tugging holiday spots with this wonderfully lit character work from Psyop directors/co-founders Marie Hyon and Marco Spier thru Stink and Berlin agency Heimat. Check the making-of for more from Marie and Marco. [Watch]
Directing collective CANADA mix live action, hand-drawn animation and VFX, into a riveting hormonal cocktail for Tame Impala’s latest single “The Less I Know The Better” thru Universal Music Australia. [Watch]
StoryCorps’ mission to “record, share and preserve the stories of our lives” gains momentum this holiday with the release of their app (iOS and Android) designed to help us all make history by interviewing a grandparent or other elder for the Great Thanksgiving Listen. [Watch]
