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Scene Not Herd: MUSIC VIDEOS
Now in its seventh year, Scene Not Herd returns with a visual journey celebrating the unique fusion of sights and sounds known as music videos. Featuring works from well-known and obscure artists, as well as established and up-and-coming music video directors, this year's program pushes boundaries and is not for the faint of heart.
| Marching Through Your Head |
| A beautifully-crafted, mountainous wilderness is the stomping ground for a cadre of boots on a stop motion journey through the timberlands towards their mountaintop rock-and-roll Olympus. |
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| How We Exit |
| Hometown hero Gentleman Reg tackles sweet science in this punchy photo-based clip which features a bout between two female contenders and ample servings of eye of the tiger. |
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| I Say Fever |
| This eerie and raucous song underscores a dire tale of an animalistic and transformative curse that spreads by touch, smell and pistol through an animated world constructed with 19th century illustrated characters. |
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| Thick Skin |
| A heartfelt, powerful and mournful melody belies the inner strength and whimsy of the Vancouver songstress' lyrics, while we watch her bear all and get down and dirty in a figurative slog through the muck of life. |
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| Strawberry Swing |
| Legendary UK animation collective Shynola employ a simple yet beautiful technique to allow our live-action hero traverse a fantastic world constructed only of wildly imaginative animated backdrops. |
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| Help I'm Alive |
| Found footage punctuated and layered with rhythmically precise bursts of colour, patterns and evocative animations are spliced with the pulsing beat of the ever-effervescent lead singer and band. |
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| 70 Million |
| Rock-and-roll offers a playful wink at art history with a plethora of the most famous classical and modern paintings reconstructed by band members in a series of off-the-wall visual interpretations. |
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| Watusii |
| The electric spirit of contemporary Berlin spins into vivid life in this clip, which encircles the band and a troupe of modern-day pranksters in an infinite loop of cleverly deployed symbols, patterns and words. |
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| Machine Gun |
| Disembodied hands populate a world of unhindered technology which blares to life and quickly grows - as if by its own accord - wildly beyond the control of its creators' fingers. |
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| 1923 aka Heaven |
| An interwoven, rhythmically aligned, neon world unfurls in this piece, originally created as a hypnotic two-part loop. |
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| Splitting the Atom |
| A brooding dirge from the veteran electronic voyageurs is captured in a prismatic black and white still life, encapsulating a super-saturated society on the verge - or perhaps beyond the brink of - ultimate and complete collapse. |
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| Let's Take a Walk |
| Saadiq gets seriously old-school funky in this song and dance number ripped straight out of a time travelling soul jam replete with skinny ties and vintage swimwear. |
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| T.I.A |
| Evocative animation explodes in a colourful pastiche of Afro-centric imagery demonstrating the aggressive flipside of the flag-waving rapper's personality. |
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| Zef Side |
| The bizarre art pranksters behind the unsettling earworm ENTER THE NINJA show us an unseemly face of contemporary South African culture that is, unsurprisingly, never featured in National Geographic. |
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| Grindin' |
| If Charles Babbage sent his illegitimate child to art school, the little blighter couldn't have created a better analog visual representation for this most digital of songs. |
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| Printer Jam |
| It's screechy, gnarly and completely CG: this drum and bass anthem may have you reaching for the plug while at the same time finding yourself strangely entranced by its office equipment assault on the eyes and ears. |
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| Spacious Thoughts |
| Outsiders and innovators Kool Keith and Tom Waits are the latest unlikely musical collaborators to join forces under the N.A.S.A. banner. Omnipresent Montreal animation team Fluorescent Hill combine the two into a morphing character who flows from an oily liquid drop to smoky, gaseous form with disturbing ease. |
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| Odessa |
| Wolves and elk, shaman and bloody-faced innocents are just some of the elements of this phantasmagoric montage encapsulating a journey from civilization into the primal hinterland that's always audible beneath Caribou's wild and wooly electronics. |
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| Truckers Delight |
| 8-Bit graphics hearken back to the Nintendo haze of youth, but the subject matter is not for the tame of heart. Our hero, a big rig driver with decidedly filthy and lusty tastes, embarks on a quest for self-gratification that will not soon be forgotten. |
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| Drunk Girls |
| Legendary director Spike Jonze returns to his music video roots with this sublimely chaotic clip, featuring a cast of aggressive art house pranksters laying into James Murphy and company. |
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