Ever bonkers and ever brilliant, the band was formed by three RISD students in 1997 and has never shaken that hardcore punk art school vibe that made them. Godparents of glitch-out noise, freak-psych synth sounds and post-post-ironic high jinks, there really is no one quite like Black Dice. Here’s a selection of ten of our favourites from across 2021.īlack Dice, White Sugar Director: Aaron Anderson
Maybe such visual assaults are all our lockdown-addled minds can cope with now, with their brain fogs and rapidly shortening attention spans maybe they act as microcosms of another dystopian shitshow of a year but make it all look a lot prettier.Įither way, there’s been some very exciting work across 2D and 3D animation, references to the machinations of gaming, weird in-camera effects, as well as combinations of all sorts of processes and disciplines.
Perhaps a reflection of how our lives are increasingly lived via screens, perhaps just because they look quite cool, many of the most compelling videos this year are those playing with glitches, data-moshing-style techniques and generally retina-bashing psychedelia.
While 2021 has undoubtedly been an easier year than 2020 for those looking to shoot music videos with actual people and production teams, it’s interesting that some of the best shorts (to us, at least) have been those that don’t rely on things being literally all-singing, all-dancing live action extravaganzas.
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