Ulver and AKFF! are hoping to as soon as once more staff up for a brand new animated music video for Ulver‘s single “Hollywood Babylon“. That observe initially debuted this previous July and can also be featured on “Liminal Animals“, the newest album from the the Norwegian black metallers turned ambient experimentalists.
Beforehand Ulver teamed with AKFF! for his or her animated clip for “It Is Not Sound“. Now the 2 events need to increase roughly $4,100 USD to make the video a actuality, with the crowdfunding happening through Kickstarter. Talking of the deliberate therapy for the clip, AKFF! supplied:
“Think about ULVER’s thought-provoking ”Hollywood Babylon” accompanied by a brand new music video by AKFF!, set in a futuristic world influenced by the theme and aesthetics of flicks like The Cupboard of Dr Caligari (1920) Nosferatu (1922), Metropolis (1927) and Tron (1982). A really shallow and self indulgent world, not not like our personal time, targeted on picture, appears to be like and facade, as a putting visible metaphor for the alienation and obsession of recent society.
Taking inspiration from the extremely evocative lyrics to the track, the story revolves round a heroine set on restoring her slowly however inevitably fading magnificence. She is difficult at work, making a bettered model of herself on the Face Remodeller, an arcade machine that gives handy means to mould your self a brand new face. However the expertise goes awry when the mannequin materialises as a grotesque reflection of the heroines shortcomings, a doppelgänger set on changing her in the true world…”