Lucy Dyson

News…

lucydyson — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:13:19 +0000

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…

lucydyson — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:07:58 +0000

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.

New music video: Ned Collette & Wirewalker – Long You Lie

lucydyson — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:48 +0000

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

lucydyson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:46:29 +0000

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!

lucydyson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:51:52 +0000

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!

New music video (re-edit!) – The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child

lucydyson — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:42:20 +0000

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.

New music video: Gemma Ray – Rescue Me

lucydyson — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:57:27 +0000

Joseph Jensen and I directed and animated this music-video for the wonderful Gemma Ray. Rescue Me premiered in the US on NPR, in the UK on DIY, on Rolling Stone in Germany, Tone Deaf in Australia, and it’s also been featured on MTV Iggy and Bust Magazine. Gemma’s new album Island Fire (that I also made the album art for) is out on Bronzerat Records on May 29. It’s an amazing record!

bts…

lucydyson — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:59:35 +0000

Some behind the scenes photos from the new Kate Miller-Hedike video Joe and I are directing….

New music video: Man Without Country – Puppets

lucydyson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:37:36 +0000

Joseph Jensen and I directed this music-video for Cardiff duo Man Without Country, it premiered yesterday on The Line Of Best Fit in the UK and on Consequence Of Sound in the US. Puppets will be available digitally and as a 10” from 9 April via Lost Balloon/Cooperative Music, and is from their soon-to-be-released debut LP Foe.

New music video: Kate Miller-Heidke – The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child

lucydyson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:30:48 +0000

Joseph Jensen and I directed, illustrated and animated this music-video for Kate Miller-Heidke /Sony Music last year. The video was released a couple of months ago and has seemingly slipped under the radar. It premiered on NY/Chicago-based online music publication Consequence of Sound and received a nice write up/interpretation there:

From CoS: For the clearest sign of Miller-Heidke’s unique creative worldview, we offer up the video for “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child”. Consider it a mix of Hanna, The Neverending Story and Where the Wild Things Are, a mish-mash of pop culture tidbits that sees the young girl hunt and kill animals with a bow before riding off into the sunset on her magical winged-tiger/spirit guide. It’s a plot from a bad acid trip for sure, but it succinctly demonstrates Miller-Heidke’s blend of the quaint and the bizzare.