The Orbweavers

Music Video: The Orbweavers – Radium Girls

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The Orbweavers wrote this beautiful and haunting song about the Radium Girls, and I created this animation for it. Radium Girls is from The Orbweaver’s second album Deep Leads, out on Mistletone Records.

To quote from The Orbweavers’ facebook page: “Today we release the video for Radium Girls, directed and created by Marita’s sister Lucy Dyson, artist, animator and music video director based in Berlin. We told her the story of girls working in the radium dial painting factories, and she came up with this moving response.”

Deep Leads – The Orbweavers at ACMI

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Recently, Melbourne band The Orbweavers presented Deep Leads, a night of music and archival film footage of Melbourne at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, three of my animations were also included in the screening.

The Poison Garden music video screened along with two other films I made especially for the performance, one for The Orbweaver’s song Periods Of Light and Rock, and another for their song Radium Girls.

Radium Girls tells the 1917 story of female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint at the United States Radium factory in New Jersey, the animation will be reworked and released as a proper music video some time next year.

I was in New York City at the time of the event so didn’t get to attend the performance and unfortunately there isn’t a lot of footage from the night, but here are some stills from the Radium Girls music video…