Never Been To Athens - US Music Video Campaign

I've been working with Andy Gesner over at HIP Video Promo on a campaign for the "Never Been To Athens" and "Spontaneity" music videos. Andy has been incredibly supportive of Alphanaut and his enthusiasm for these two visual pieces has really been incredible. The campaign will launch March 1st and will target mainstream video markets like MTV, VH1, Fuel, Logo, etc., as well as online and club promotions. So keep a look out for these two clips in March and April 2010.

Here's an excerpt from HIP Video's online promo published on their site. To read the entire article click the link below.

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Begin with Ahlander's interstellar clip for "Never Been To Athens". Here, our animated space traveler rides through the stars in a vegetable, lands on shifting desert planets, and drifts past televisions embedded in asteroids. It's suffused with a sense of sadness and dreams unrealized: the astronaut has touched the sky, but his sad eyes reveal that he's missing something he'll likely never find. Most of the video is constructed from sliding two-dimensional solids and cut-outs, which gives this expansive universe a curious feeling of flatness and disorientation. It's a fascinating ride, and one that ends in disappointment for the poor main character, but in revelation for the viewer.

Much is revealed at the end of Nils Timm's clip for "Spontaneity", too. Here, the walking ghost is the creative spirit of an ordinary woman desperate (perhaps unconsciously) for escape from the mundane. The phantom wanders through hip clubs and busy avenues, unable to quench her desire. As in the "Athens" clip, the feeling of destabilization is generated by the director's technique -- here, thousands of still frames are stitched into a sequence that feels superficially logical, but is hardly uninterrupted. Motion is irregular, choppy, trippy; the ghost's tentative walk is more than occasionally terrifying. It's another thrill ride from a maker of dreams -- messages from the mind of a true musical visionary.

View the full article visit HIPVideoPromo.com
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