The Woods: a beautiful anti-lullaby

November 10th, 2007 at 10:37pm cicada

The Woods: a stop-motion music video for Polly Paulusma, by artist Rima Staines. You can read Rima’s account of her creative process here, at her blog. Paulusma’s song is a sort of bittersweet version of the Hansel and Gretel myth.

What I really want to know is, why is MTV Italy willing to air this kind of magical semi-hallucination, when our MTV churns out nothing but reality shows? Grrr.

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  • 1. nursemyra  |  November 11th, 2007 at 12:21 am

    that’s beautiful. thanks.


  • 2. Emma  |  November 19th, 2007 at 2:40 am

    It has the atmosphere of those old Eastern European cartoons that used to get shown in the afternoon, like


  • 3. Emma  |  November 19th, 2007 at 6:22 am

    Oops, like The Mole, I meant to say:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lugJIegVR4


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