Directing team D.A.D.D.Y. take some vintage fairy tale shorts by stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen's and insert a little bit of reality for this Bloc Party video. Tanks, grenades and other killing machines defile the idyllic enough fantasies and minor, relatively harmless — unless you're an eggman — life lessons you would usually expect in a Mother Goose fable.
D.A.D.D.Y., directors: "We acquired a number of the [Harryhousen] fairy tale stories and re-edited them to the track, so we had a strange narrative set in this animated fairytale world. A place inhabited by all the classic characters from Little Miss Muffet to Red Riding Hood.Taking the re-edited vintage animations, we then reanimated over these beautiful old stop-motion films, adding some 'reality,' so they lost that innocent feeling and meaning they once had. We have no idea what Mr. Harryhausen will think if he sees them, but some of the new cartoon violence makes parts of the video darkly funny, which he might like."
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Bloc Party "One Month Off" (Wichita*)
D.A.D.D.Y., director | Mary McCarthy, producer | Red Jam Productions (Dublin), production co | Debs Herbert / y-i London, rep | Jill Kaplan / Skyway Productions, commissioner | *signed to Atlantic for the US
