Art, Music, Video

03\09\2014
Written by Daan Rombaut



8-bit music video by Mattis Dovier

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French animator Mattis Dovier, whose fantastic GIFs were featured here earlier, has also directed a pixelated, 8-bit music video for Plurabelle’s ‘Our Fires’. Inspired by old video games, the music video is a thrilling, erotic trip into creepy suburbia, where a Twin Peaks style horror story comes our way. Personally, it reminds me of Charles Burns’ graphic novel ‘Black Hole’. Watch it below.

“In addition to pixel art and frame by frame animation, graphics in this video are based on various influences. The main ones arise from the underground manga, especially Maruo Suehiro’s ’ero-guro” or erotic-grotesque style (to name one), that mixes both horror and erotic genres. Human passions such as love and violence become exacerbated to their climax, making the man look like a crazy and decadent animal, the whole thing taking the form of a macabre poetry.” – Mattis Dovier