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Music Video Spotlight: Nimue – Arcadia

Synopsis: Arcadia is an 80’s inspired, fantasy, LGBTQ+ animated music video made by students of The Animation Workshop.

The project is a labor-of-love production, in which the team wanted to take a new spin on a classic tale, exploring subjects and themes they feel are important to represent.

Directed by Anton Skogsberg.

Song written by Clara “Nimue” Jangmark.

Crew (partial list):
Marie Jangmark – Animation and Storyboard Lead

Petra Medin – Animation, Storyboard and Color Lead

Lovisa Andersson – Character Design and Animation Lead

Julia Lund – FX Lead

Frances Nielsen – Animation Lead

Music Video Spotlight: American Football – No Feeling feat. Brendan Yates

Directed by Cady Buche and Travis Barron.

American Football is Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella, Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos.

“No Feeling” is from the album LP4.

Lyrics:
There’s nothing new to say or do
There’s nothing new to crave
Tell the doctors I’m done
The kids, “Adieu”
And Mother, “Désolé”
One last goodbye and one last kiss
One last dance with the Goddess Nyx

No feeling
No pain
No one to blame
Forever awaits
It’s just an eternal blank page

Some bones stand on their own
Some bones are carried
Mine are either, neither, or both –
They just ache to be buried

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Music Video Spotlight: K Sensei – Le Monde (The World) feat. Malika Whitaker

Synopsis: Atlas — portrayed by K Sensei — literally carries the world on his back. Frozen like a marble statue, he is crushed by his burden until he begins to crack.

A Star, Malika, then moves through space: a radiant, free, and ever-moving figure, she embodies hope, guidance, and the possibility of transformation.

A symbol of light, renewal, and freedom, she gathers Atlas’s fragments back together, heals his fractures, and helps him rise — until wings emerge on his back: Atlas is no longer only a bearer, but becomes one who can ascend.

“Le monde” is from the EP De cendres et de larmes (From Ashes and Tears) by K Sensei.

Directed by Malika Whitaker.

Story by K Sensei.

Music Video Spotlight: Gorillaz – The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God

“The Mountain” feat. Dennis Hopper & Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash.

“The Moon Cave” feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda and Black Thought.

“The Sad God” feat. Black Thought, Ajay Prasanna and Anoushka Shankar.

From The Mountain, the ninth studio album by Gorillaz.

Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt, Max Taylor and Jonathan Djob Nkondo.

Music Video Spotlight: spktra – Spirit Jumper

Written, directed and edited by spktra.

Director’s note: This music video took 5 years to make. I wanted something that felt like it could have come from an authentic cel animation production and then been lost to time.

Painstaking detail went into researching the effects of film on animation, from grain, halation, bloom, and color shifts, to how traditional optical effects were achieved and how subtle movements in cel photography gave the image additional texture.

The goal wasn’t just to mimic a style, but to capture that feeling you have when you watch old animation.

Producers: Jessica Wen and Michael Fish.

Animation: Tamás Pazmany and Regina Nemes

Character Design: Glenn Wong, Louis Picard and Zac Plucinski

Character Color Stylist: Chris Hooten

Background Art: Alfie Marley

Creative Consultant: Eric Williger

Music Video Spotlight: Juana Molina – Desinhumano

Synopsis: A song inspired by the story of the Monkey King from the Chinese novel Journey to the West.

In this story, a powerful monkey, born from a magical stone, is trapped beneath a mountain by Buddha after becoming too powerful and causing chaos in heaven.

Hand painted with acrylics on acetate film.

Directed by Dante Zaballa.

Animated by Dante Zaballa and Nespy5euro.

Painted by Ago Carrera, Azul Segovia, Dante Zaballa, Eze Matteo, Juana Molina, Marina Pla, Seba Gaugin, Simon Wilches Castro, Sofi Galarce, Sukermercado and Vrea.

Music Video Spotlight: Cuco – A Love Letter To LA

Synopsis: A psychedelic love letter to Los Angeles that transforms familiar streets into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes.

The goal was to bring the city’s energy to life in a surreal journey that bends reality while remaining deeply rooted in Chicano culture.

The project reimagines Los Angeles not just as a physical place but as an emotional landscape shaped by memory, nostalgia and reinvention.

Written and directed by Paul Trillo.

Original art by Paul Flores.

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