TDF Interview
Last week was cool, Joe and I won Best Animation in the SoundKILDA music video competition for this animation!
And The Design Files published this profile and interview with me.
The below piece was featured in the interview, it is one of my new collages and it will be part of my upcoming Berlin solo exhibition at Das Gift June 29.
News…
Tonight “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child” music-video Joe and I made for Kate Miller-Heidke is screening in the SoundKILDA music-video competition along with 16 of the best Australian music-videos from 2011.
Update! The Tiger Inside won the SoundKILDA award for Best Animation!
In other exciting news, the music-video Joe and I made for Gemma Ray’s “Rescue Me” screened on Top Of The Pops 2 last Monday!
And finally, earlier in the week I spoke to The Vine about being a creative Australian based in Berlin, you can read the interview here.
This is the photo that accompanies the interview, Joe took it earlier this year. I’m in front of a memorial to Ernst Thälmann, leader of the German Communist Party during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933, kept in solitary confinement for 11 years and then shot on Hitler’s orders in 1944. The memorial is in Prenzlauer Berg, a former GDR neighbourhood, it forms the centerpiece of a mid-80s park and housing estate named after Thälmann, it’s kind of a big ugly expanse surrounded by old and beautiful streets.
Work in progress…
Here are some mock-ups I recently created for a music video treatment, (sans Joe’s wonderful animated characters, we don’t want to give away the artist/band at this stage). Joe and I are in the process of further developing the treatment, and we might end up moving away from using some of these inital ideas, but I really like them so I thought I would share them here.
Joseph Jensen and I directed this video for ex-Melbourne now Berlin based musician Ned Collette + Wirewalker (Joe Talia), it premiered earlier this week on Mess+Noise. ‘Long You Lie’ is the first single from Ned+Wirewalker’s second album 2, that comes out tomorrow through Dot Dash/Remote Control. The video features Sascha Gersak and well known German stage actor Mirjam Smejkal.
Music video shoot – Man Without Country
On Wednesday Tom and Ryan from Man Without Country came to Berlin (all the way from Wales) to make a music video with me and Joe. Here are some behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot, I love these images but the finished video is going to look a lot different. Joe and I also directed Man Without Country’s Puppets video which came out earlier this year, and we made the album art for their debut record Foe which is out on June 5th via Lost Balloon / Cooperative Music. It’s been great working with the band, stay tuned for the video…
Island Fire 12″ album art!
Check it out! I made the art work for Gemma Ray’s new album Island Fire, it’s out on Bronzerat Records on 12″ clear vinyl (and CD too), and it’s an amazing record. Gemma performed at the excellent record store Mr Dead & Mrs Free in Berlin on Record Store Day last Sturday, the place was so packed I couldn’t even squeeze in to see her play, and the store remained super crowded for a while afterwards as everyone lined up to get their copies of the album signed. I have really loved working with Gemma and I hope to collaborate with her again. She’s off to the US in May to play some shows with Ane Brun, so go and see her! Here’s the artwork:
Front!
Gatefold!
Back!
Me peeping through the clear vinyl!
Earlier this year I posted the US online video release for Kate Miller-Heidke’s “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child” (that version was from her Fatty Gets A Stylist side project with Keir Nutall). Well, now Kate’s new album Nightflight is about to be released and so the video has received a re-edit for the album’s acoustic version of the track, I think it’s a lovely fit!
Animated & directed by Lucy Dyson & Joseph Jensen.
