Opening with torch-wielding villagers and a wall bleeding oil, this experimental film attaches vivid scenery and strange characters to the wonderful melodic wavelengths of the band Animal Collective, revitalizing the lost form of the "visual album."
Sound
Animal Collective at their most fragmented and terrifying.
Practical Effects
Gooey body horror that feels handmade and deeply wrong.
Direction
Danny Perez commits fully to zero narrative coherence.
Director
Danny Perez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Revived the nearly dead 'visual album' format years before Beyoncé's Lemonade made it mainstream again.
The band and Danny Perez spent four years creating this in bursts between tours, with no script—just 'what if this looked cool while sounding scary.'
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