The extraordinary animator and artist Milton Melvin Croissant III provided some of 2014’s most unforgettable visuals with his outstanding video for Thug Entrancer‘s track, “Death After Life I“. Voted our Best Music Video of last year, we were more than stoked to hear that he has new work for Rubik‘s cut “Duet“, off the upcoming Tone Poem LP–due out May 11th on the musician’s Domestic Records label. Croissant reports that:
“Duet is a hallucinatory cartoon Odyssey through late capitalist landscapes and into the afterlife… the video draws from the visual landscape of Fantasia, and other animated fantasy epics.”
Indeed, following an iconic pair of cartoon hands, equipped with eyes and attached to two squiggly arms, we are led on an epic and surreal journey–with Rubik’s “sample based music” as our guide. While Croissant’s 3-D animations often feature the interiors of houses and office buildings as tableau, filled out by bizarre collections of cultural detritus, but yet, devoid of human presence, here, the animator’s expressively rendered hands act as our protagonist. Leading us past visual models of the local video game store and porn shop, we see these Everyhands as they descend to their final destiny–clapping on a Radio City stage, watched by bored orchestra instruments for eternity.
I highly recommend a trip over to Milton’s website, where you can check out further examples of this artist’s mind-blowing work!
