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Thomas Azier – Red Eyes

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:08:21 +0000

Directed by Sander Houtkruijer and Imri Kahn
Cinematography – Lauro Cress
Assistant Camera – Albrecht von Grünhagen
Light – Emma Rosa Simon
Grip – Matthias Maercks
Make-up – Sophia Dietz
Styling – Helena Grierson & Georg Naoum

with: Henrike Meyer, Thomas Azier and Moshik Hayman

Egyptrixx – Old Black

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:30:42 +0000

Egyptrixx feat. Ohbijou – Old Black
Directed by A. N. Fischer
720p; 4 minutes 04 seconds;

Old Black is Egyprixx´ remake of the song of the same title by the drone doom band Earth. David Psutka had already commissioned me with the video Start from the Beginning for Egyptrixx last year and I am glad he asked me again for this one. Even though Old Black and Start from the Beginning are completely different songs, I tried to stick to a similar concept and develop a bleak artifical world, which is influenced by the soundcsape. Starting out I had designed a lot more symbols and scenes, but David urged me to keep it as minimal and simple as possible.

The graphic elements are a mixture of 3d-renderings and flat 2d textures aligned in space. The video makes heavy use of particles and simulations and was made with the open source 3d software Blender, with After Effects used for particle and compositing work. Randomness finds its way into my work often and I appreciate the element of not having complete control over the outcome of a scene.

Jason Forrest – Raunchy

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:29:03 +0000

Director – Sander Houtkruijer
Assistant director – Imri Kahn
Cinematography – Mariel Baqueiro
Assistant camera – Carlos Andres Lopez
Gaffer – Alejandro Bernal
Make up – Anne Lomberg, Sarah Eissler
Styling – Gerda Postma
Animation – Alexi Johansen

cast: Heiko Tubbesing, Mirto Strambi, Nat Fowler, Alina Rojas
Produced by Pari Garvanos and Sander Houtkruijer

Start from the Beginning

Aki — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:55:37 +0000

„Start from the Beginning“ – Egyptrixx / Bible Eyes LP (Night Slugs 2011)
Animated short by A. N. Fischer / Datdatdat. You should watch it in HD on Vimeo.

The video examines the relationship between the simulated image and its physical manifestation. The landscape appearing in the video references one of Fischer´s relief sculptures (http://anfischer.com/new-relief-in-progress/).
The sculpture is magnified and distorted by the soundscape created by Egyptrixx. As time progresses the landscape becomes increasingly complex and distorted and finally changes its aggregate state to liquid. The shapes of the polygons appear in contrast to the fluid with which they collide. The 3d model was textured with photos of the physical sculpture, which was carved from a block of mdf with a cnc-miling machine.

Egyptrixx on MySpace
Night Slugs on MySpace

Marteria Sekundenschlaf

Daniel Franke — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:00:59 +0000

MARTERIA feat. Peter Fox Sekundenschlaf from Storz & Escherich on Vimeo.

Cortney Tidwell – Watusii

Daniel Franke — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:54:49 +0000

What you see is a dizzying rotation to the exhausted climax. The audience might doubt their sense of balance while parking lots, roofs, galleries and other locations are mingled and mangled. But its not just about the motion; its these little lovely details and props. The song is visualized by light-paintings moving in staccato to the beat while Courtney plays paper drums reminding us of the Stones. Strange looking persons with buckets for heads are forming words out of living bodies while others are bullying the beat with umbrellas. Conclusion: The two directors are creating a weird, screaming, fast and colorful journey that does not leaves any room for breathing.

Watch in HD on vimeo

Marteria – Zum Koenig geboren

Daniel Franke — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:16:42 +0000

Born to be king, but making a muck of life. In a dark studio Daniel Franke and Martin W. Maier filmed the way of life of a self-appointed king. Palms turn into clocks, a gun smoothing the way to the cut, not enough for a suicide. The word \”Njet\” combines to a busdoor, closing. Paper-mache made he drives through the studio set, led by a star, towards the faceless dancers. Money raining from above and a door guiding the way to marriage. In the end not everything is like in the beginning. The dancers are wearing suits now, the set fades away, leaving a rarely lit space. With their love to detail and in the style of Gondry, Franke and Maier have created their own Fantasy.

Dir. Daniel Franke & Martin W. Maier

Official selection of the MuVi-Preis at the Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen
won the MuVi-Audience-Award

Watch in HD on vimeo

Watch on vimeo

Tolose – Designing Chimneys

Mikala — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:08 +0000

Watch on Vimeo

The basic idea for the Designing Chimneys video we owe to a Ramadan-ridden Syrian cab-driver who let us buy the exquisite oriental beats mix-tape he played for us during our ride through Damascus; it was decorated with the great 80ies hot-air-balloon prints we let the band ride in through the multitude of comicy, fairytalish, dystopian or intoxicated sceneries that accompany the soundscape of the song.
The collaged imagery derives from all sources we could get our thievish hands on; old postcards, posters & papers, friends face-book-foto-albums, random peoples Flickr accounts and of course I-Stock stock (the neat watermarks are all included).
We had our fun drawing additional visuals from the Best Of gallery of our useless art-school education and other popular culture trash baskets and so the worlds second most annoying fish Nemo gets eaten by Hirst’s poetic formaldehyde-shark and general MacArthur exchanges his victorious cigar with Magritte’s non-existent pipe; we have Koons poppy dine on cat-food in the disco while his rabbit step dances with fair Bavarian Bier-Mädchen. The tiling of the disco sequence has been generously provided by Warhol, Mondrian & Dali.
Bush & other favourite Russian dictators all take their fall (into the ocean pit or otherwise) before the balloon disappears back into the ear channel of revived Financial crisis hero Marx.
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When Simon asked us to do a video for Tolose the relative spatial distance between Copenhagen and Berlin formed a little bump on the road. Through modern day miracles like digicams & Email, along with the friendly intervention of Mr. Malmkvist & his blue box we were able to slip his stop motion sequences of the band members smoothly into our all-fake universe.

Song: Simon Lambrecht Finne & TOLOSE
Lyrics: Simon Lambrecht Finne

Video: Fru Dal & Daniel Franke
Stop Motion Photos: Jesper Malmkvist

Marteria “Verstrahlt”

Daniel Franke — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:38:50 +0000

WATCH IN HD ON VIMEO

Babooshka 2009

Aki — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:14:21 +0000

Dir. Daniel Franke & Martin W. Maier
wearechopchop.com & martin-w-maier.de