Video | Django Django – Reflections
By Andy Kahn Apr 28, 2015 • 4:30 pm PDT
London-based rock band Django Django will issue their sophomore album, Born Under Saturn via Because Music on May 5. Today the band shared the official music video for another of the album’s singles, “Reflections.”
Premiered by Pitchfork, the track is the third officially released song from Born Under Saturn, joining the previously shared “Beginning To Fade” and “First Light.” The innovative video for “Reflections” was directed by Natalia Stuyk and animated by Eva Papamargeriti. Here’s how the video’s development and production is described:
The video, directed by Natalia Stuyk and animated by Eva Papamargeriti, is a surreal take on the traditional performance music video, given a new breath of life in a digital CGI world. The band, transformed into other-worldly kinetic sculptures, perform the track in an evolving 3D gallery setting.
The digital incarnations of the band’s performance were created through experimental use of Motion Capture and Face Shift technologies, which enabled Natalia and Eva to morph each band member and their very human movements, into an abstract sculpture of their own design.
Shot at Framestore London, Reflections represents the most experimental and abstract use of motion capture technology the studio have seen to date.
Watch “Beginning To Fade”
Watch “First Light”
Django Django Tour Dates
4/30 -Kingston Upon Thames, UK @ New Slang
5/2 -Aberdeen, UK @ The Lemon Tree
5/3 -Glasgow, UK @ Stag and Dagger ‘Live at Glasgow’
5/5 -London, UK @ Rough Trade East
5/13 -Portsmouth, UK @ Pyramids Centre
5/14 -Sheffield, UK @ Plug
5/14 -5/16 -Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
5/18 -Norwich, UK @ Waterfront
5/19 -London, UK @ KOKO
5/21 -Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy Bristol
5/22 -Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre
5/23 -Manchester, UK @ Manchester Cathedral
5/29 -5/30 -Cologne, Germany @ Telekom Electronic Beats Festival
5/30 -Paris, France @ Parc De Bagatelle
5/30 -5/31 -Paris, France @ We Love Green
6/6 -6/7 -London, UK @ Field Day
7/1 -7/4 -Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er Festival
7/2 -7/5 -Hérouville Saint-Clair, France @ Beauregard Festival
7/17 -7/19 -Beccles, UK @ Latitude Festival
7/17 -7/19 -Gräfenhainichen, Germany @ Melt! Festival
7/28 -New York, NY @ Webster Hall
7/31 -8/2 -Chicago, IL, @ Lollapalooza
8/6 -Los Angeles, CA, @ Mayan Ther
8/7 -8/9 -San Francisco, CA, @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
8/21 -8/23 -Hamburg, Germany @ MS Dockville Festival
8/21 -8/23 -Biddinghuizen, Netherlands @ Lowlands Festival
8/28 -8/30 -Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
8/28 -8/30 -Wetherby, UK @ Leeds Festival
9/4 -9/6 -Stradbally, Ireland @ Electric Picnic
9/4 -9/6 -Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Premiered by Pitchfork, the track is the third officially released song from Born Under Saturn, joining the previously shared “Beginning To Fade” and “First Light.” The innovative video for “Reflections” was directed by Natalia Stuyk and animated by Eva Papamargeriti. Here’s how the video’s development and production is described:
The video, directed by Natalia Stuyk and animated by Eva Papamargeriti, is a surreal take on the traditional performance music video, given a new breath of life in a digital CGI world. The band, transformed into other-worldly kinetic sculptures, perform the track in an evolving 3D gallery setting.
The digital incarnations of the band’s performance were created through experimental use of Motion Capture and Face Shift technologies, which enabled Natalia and Eva to morph each band member and their very human movements, into an abstract sculpture of their own design.
Shot at Framestore London, Reflections represents the most experimental and abstract use of motion capture technology the studio have seen to date.
Watch “Beginning To Fade”
Watch “First Light”
Django Django Tour Dates
4/30 -Kingston Upon Thames, UK @ New Slang
5/2 -Aberdeen, UK @ The Lemon Tree
5/3 -Glasgow, UK @ Stag and Dagger ‘Live at Glasgow’
5/5 -London, UK @ Rough Trade East
5/13 -Portsmouth, UK @ Pyramids Centre
5/14 -Sheffield, UK @ Plug
5/14 -5/16 -Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
5/18 -Norwich, UK @ Waterfront
5/19 -London, UK @ KOKO
5/21 -Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy Bristol
5/22 -Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre
5/23 -Manchester, UK @ Manchester Cathedral
5/29 -5/30 -Cologne, Germany @ Telekom Electronic Beats Festival
5/30 -Paris, France @ Parc De Bagatelle
5/30 -5/31 -Paris, France @ We Love Green
6/6 -6/7 -London, UK @ Field Day
7/1 -7/4 -Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er Festival
7/2 -7/5 -Hérouville Saint-Clair, France @ Beauregard Festival
7/17 -7/19 -Beccles, UK @ Latitude Festival
7/17 -7/19 -Gräfenhainichen, Germany @ Melt! Festival
7/28 -New York, NY @ Webster Hall
7/31 -8/2 -Chicago, IL, @ Lollapalooza
8/6 -Los Angeles, CA, @ Mayan Ther
8/7 -8/9 -San Francisco, CA, @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
8/21 -8/23 -Hamburg, Germany @ MS Dockville Festival
8/21 -8/23 -Biddinghuizen, Netherlands @ Lowlands Festival
8/28 -8/30 -Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
8/28 -8/30 -Wetherby, UK @ Leeds Festival
9/4 -9/6 -Stradbally, Ireland @ Electric Picnic
9/4 -9/6 -Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival
