Music Video, Annuals – Confessor
Annuals – Confessor (Subterranean Link)
“The treatment for the video was written by Annuals’ own Zach Oden and then brought to life by Terry Gilliam’s special effects designer, Daniel Auber. It is not only gorgeous and fantastical, but it also features drawing-versions of the actual band. You know, if they were traveling woods-guides and prison torturers living in a storybook that takes place during an ethereal version of the Spanish Inquisition.
Straight from Daniel, here’s a little quote on the making of the video:
“Annuals’ ‘Confessor’ is my first directorial experience after more than 20 years of work in the film industry. [My career] began with building creatures in Rome, then into conceptual design with Terry Gilliam (Monty Python, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys,Time Bandits, etc.) in London and moving to Los Angeles after winning an Emmy award with the Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. I directed this video as part of the artist collective, The Masses. The treatment that the band wrote for ‘Confessor’ brought me back to the fanciful atmospheres that captured my teenage years. I felt it would be the perfect opportunity to practice some magic with the use of drawings.
The video (echoing a journey through the illustrations of a Fantasy book) takes advantage of a simple brain mechanism to evoke the presence of a supernatural element: a mysterious owl with cat eyes. Under this incantation, the protagonists of the video (members of the band) follow the course of their destiny. And following this exciting experience, I perhaps found a new one myself.”
(Yeah, I didn’t feel like writing anything today. So, enjoy the video for Annuals’ first single, and the little copy and pasted backstory about it all.)
