ODDSAC: An Audio Visual Adventure
By Joey on April 13, 2010 in mp3blog
Over spring break I had the rare opportunity to see the combination Animal Collective and director Danny Perez‘s full-length art film, ODDSAC. The screening was accompanied by a pretty amusing commentary from the director and Geologist.
ODDSAC is a collaborative work in all aspects. Audio was created in tandem with the visual track, and the story would follow and return to short vignettes ranging from vampires to psychedelic food fights with a Pan’s Labyrinth type creature (to be fair just about everything was psychedelic). Trippy and dark seems to be the surface connotation, but watch out for humor secretly poking her head all over the place. The piece was about four years in the making, with the musical facet tasting strongly of Strawberry Jam. The semi-poppy, extremely catchy melodies are dispersed between long stretches of soundscapes, and although the occasional Harrison Bergeron-esque clambor scattered my thoughts, there were some moments of sincere serenity. When the band breaks out into full sound, my mind was often blown, and although my head may have been nodding during the climb into the mini-music-videos, it was well worth the wait.
Possibly my favorite part of the experience was the Q & A with Danny and Geo, where a feminist bombarded Danny non-stop about the gender roles portrayed by women in the kitchen. Danny basically said in a less then roundabout way that he just liked cool looking shit.
Overall, I say see it and absorb.
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