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1,300 Oil Work Movement By means of a Dreamlike Animated Music Video for The Beatles — Colossal

1,300 Oil Work Movement By means of a Dreamlike Animated Music Video for The Beatles — Colossal

An animated image of two painted portraits



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#Em Cooper
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November 7, 2022

Grace Ebert



London-based animator Em Cooper captures the hazy daze of slipping from wakefulness to slumber in a brand new music video for The Beatles’ “I’m Solely Sleeping.” The brief animation stitches collectively 1,300 oil work on celluloid that swirl and twist from one scene of euphoric stupor to the following. “We used to take heed to this music on a tape within the automobile after I was a baby,” Cooper informed Artistic Growth, “and the music itself evokes such a mesmerising, languid, dreamy state. In a means, my job was solely to observe its lead with a paintbrush in my hand.”

Initially launched in 1966 and now a part of the brand new Revolver: Particular Version album, the harmonic observe stays related and subversive for its soporific, unhurried method to fashionable life, which Cooper echoes in her laborious means of hand-painting each body. Yow will discover extra from the Emmy-nominated animator and director on her web site.

 

A painted image of a man sleeping

An animated image of fossils, shoes, lipstick, and oil rigs

A painted image of a hand plucking a guitar

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