Technology Puppets
Technology Puppets
'My Yoko Ono' music video for Danish pop duo Reptile Youth, humours topics like genetic manipulation and designer babies, suggesting that we are 'Puppets of technology' entrusting the internet to archive our secrets.
What do you get when you blend 37 motion graphics students from Hyper Island with 2.5 days and an image of Willy Wonka’s Oompa Loompa factory?
My Yoko Ono music video entertains the concept that we are all operated by a higher order, becoming ‘Puppets of technology’, entrusting the digital (FB) to archive our secrets. The film opens with a medical journal – design magazine hybrid, meant to simulate parents thumbing through a baby catalogue when gene selecting their perfect child.
We switch between worlds, seeing the un-hazardous duo Mads and Esben being birthed to in an incubator, operated by Hyper Island students who rotate facial expressions and manipulate skin types.
A collaboration with Lucy McRae and Hyper Island Motion Graphics 13 Stockholm.
Directed by Lucy McRae in collaboration with Hyper Island Motion Graphics 13 Stockholm
D.O.P: Felix Swensson
Edited by Dorrit Andersen
Post production by Norman Nisbet / Larsen VFX
Producer: Kate Constable, Leandro Santini, Andreas Markström, Daniel Cansu
Starring: Reptile Youth
Editing facilities by Welcome Post
“What do you get with 37 Hyper Island students, 2.5 days and an image of Willy Wonka’s Oompa Loompa factory?”
A collaboration with Lucy McRae, Reptile Youth and 37 motion graphic students from Hyper Island resulted in a video that entertains the concept that we are operated by a higher order, becoming ‘Puppets of technology’. Opening with a medical journal, referencing parents thumbing through a baby catalogue (selecting their perfect child), we switch between worlds to the duo being birthed in an incubator; all operated by the hands Hyper Islanders who rotate facial expressions and manipulate skin types.
