Working with the same visuals director over and over again, Animal Collective get to play around with their strong suits and are allowed to experiment. Their suits in "Today's Supernatural" are clown suits, and a Chinese dragon. The Danny Perez-helmed full-length-movie-thing "Oddsac" was a good example of how the members of the New York band sort of ooze and bolt in and out of their own tracks, musically and visually. There was a lot of similar electricity and tech-y weirdness that shows up in this track -- culled from AC's forthcoming full-length "Centipede Hz" -- and it works. The desert pastels...
- 8/17/2012
- Hitfix
London International Documentary Festival
Two weeks, over 130 films and countless events and appearances, the nation's biggest factual film event gives you plenty to chew on – too much for any one mouth but whether it's Finnish saunas, morris dancing or Middle East politics, there's something for you here. Many key films assess influential individuals. Asif Kapadia's new Ayrton Senna film opens proceedings; Steven Soderbergh remembers Spalding Grey and Martin Scorsese honours Elia Kazan; Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano's threatened lifestyle is detailed; and Playboy's Hugh Hefner is recast as a liberal crusader – nothing to talk about there then.
Various venues, Fri to 28 May
Fire In Babylon & From The Ashes, Nationwide
Cricket is hardly underrepresented on the nation's airwaves, but for those who'd prefer a little bit of history to go with the hours of live coverage, you've got an enticing documentary double bill this month. From The Ashes remembers England's tumultuous 1981 Ashes campaign,...
Two weeks, over 130 films and countless events and appearances, the nation's biggest factual film event gives you plenty to chew on – too much for any one mouth but whether it's Finnish saunas, morris dancing or Middle East politics, there's something for you here. Many key films assess influential individuals. Asif Kapadia's new Ayrton Senna film opens proceedings; Steven Soderbergh remembers Spalding Grey and Martin Scorsese honours Elia Kazan; Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano's threatened lifestyle is detailed; and Playboy's Hugh Hefner is recast as a liberal crusader – nothing to talk about there then.
Various venues, Fri to 28 May
Fire In Babylon & From The Ashes, Nationwide
Cricket is hardly underrepresented on the nation's airwaves, but for those who'd prefer a little bit of history to go with the hours of live coverage, you've got an enticing documentary double bill this month. From The Ashes remembers England's tumultuous 1981 Ashes campaign,...
- 5/6/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
As slapdash appropriations of avant-garde cinema and ’70s rock movies go, Animal Collective’s “visual album” Oddsac isn’t half-bad. Along with filmmaker Danny Perez, the New York art-rock act spends 50 minutes combining shock imagery, backwoods mysticism, and abstract swirls of light and color, all set to music more in line with the dark tribal jams of Animal Collective’s early work than the symphonic pop explosions of Merriweather Post Pavilion. The film doesn’t have a narrative, except in spurts: Oddsac features men in robes and pasty makeup, washing white orbs in a rushing stream; a family eating ...
- 8/25/2010
- avclub.com
Your Weekly Pop Culture Mandate Five things you must not miss this week, including Animal Collective, Scott Pilgrim, and a new memoir from Rosanne Cash. By Ray Rahman Musicoddsac, Animal Collective The confederation of weirdos known as Animal Collective has become increasingly accessible since its younger, freakier days. The Oddsac DVD, or “visual album,” bucks that trend. Our eloquent colleagues at Mojo describe the band's four-year collaboration with video artist Danny Perez as “a beatific musical” that mixes “Blair Witch-style arboreal horror and op-art-esque psychedelic animation." It features new music that's sure to please fans of the band’s looser, more ambient albums. And there are vampires. August 10 BOOKSYou Lost Me There, Rosecrans Baldwin According to author Gary Shteyngart, novelists are akin to “those last Japanese soldiers... shooting because nobody told them that Hirohito has surrendered.&[...]...
- 8/9/2010
- by Ray Rahman
- Nerve
It started out as a proposal for a tour doc, but 'visual album' follow-up to Merriweather Post Pavilion, Oddsac, is more countercultural arthouse meets B-movie shlock
Not that he'd admit it, but there must have been times when Josh Dibb has wondered if he's the butt of some cruel cosmic joke. As the rest of his band Animal Collective were making the leap from Pitchfork-approved psychedelic squawkers to critically acclaimed custodians of the zeitgeist with 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, Dibb was off on an extended sabbatical, building a barn in his native Maryland. Now for the follow-up to Merriweather he's back in the fold, and what happens? He's up to his waist in swamp water with a smoke bomb strapped to his face.
The occasion is Oddsac, a 54-minute "visual album" in which Dibb plays something of a leading role, appearing as a Nosferatu-style vampire who attacks a camping party...
Not that he'd admit it, but there must have been times when Josh Dibb has wondered if he's the butt of some cruel cosmic joke. As the rest of his band Animal Collective were making the leap from Pitchfork-approved psychedelic squawkers to critically acclaimed custodians of the zeitgeist with 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, Dibb was off on an extended sabbatical, building a barn in his native Maryland. Now for the follow-up to Merriweather he's back in the fold, and what happens? He's up to his waist in swamp water with a smoke bomb strapped to his face.
The occasion is Oddsac, a 54-minute "visual album" in which Dibb plays something of a leading role, appearing as a Nosferatu-style vampire who attacks a camping party...
- 7/24/2010
- by Louis Pattison
- The Guardian - Film News
Oddsac, London, Manchester & Leeds
How to follow up one of the best albums of last year? Rather than release another cryptically titled psychedelic odyssey, New York uber-hipsters Animal Collective have gone even further out and made a film. Well, actually it's a "visual album", made with long-time artist collaborator Danny Perez. Four years in the making, featuring completely new music, Oddsac is a narrative-free, head-spinning vortex of abstract kaleidoscopic trippiness that, as one fan puts it, "makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey". Confused? Perez and the band will be on hand to explain themselves.
Ica, SE1, Thu; Mint Lounge, Manchester, Fri; Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 15 May, oddsac.com
One Night In Turin, Nationwide
The summer blockbuster season is set to be called off for a few weeks this June while the World Cup hogs the nation's viewing attention instead. But to get us in the mood, and keep us in the cinema,...
How to follow up one of the best albums of last year? Rather than release another cryptically titled psychedelic odyssey, New York uber-hipsters Animal Collective have gone even further out and made a film. Well, actually it's a "visual album", made with long-time artist collaborator Danny Perez. Four years in the making, featuring completely new music, Oddsac is a narrative-free, head-spinning vortex of abstract kaleidoscopic trippiness that, as one fan puts it, "makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey". Confused? Perez and the band will be on hand to explain themselves.
Ica, SE1, Thu; Mint Lounge, Manchester, Fri; Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 15 May, oddsac.com
One Night In Turin, Nationwide
The summer blockbuster season is set to be called off for a few weeks this June while the World Cup hogs the nation's viewing attention instead. But to get us in the mood, and keep us in the cinema,...
- 5/7/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Animal Collective’s film Oddsac features psychedelic colored smoke, creepy horror film music and a robed man careening around the forest with his head seemingly aflame—and that’s just in the trailer. Since premiering at this year’s Sundance film festival, Animal Collective’s “visual album” has had only a few screenings, leaving most fans waiting until its June 29 DVD release to find out what else this trippy turn through the artists’ heads had in store....
- 4/6/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a New York premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. Animal Collective's Oddsac premieres in NYC On March 2, I downed a couple Bushmills and walked to the fine Visual Arts Theatre in Manhattan for a sold-out screening of Oddsac. I assume by now most of the column's readers have heard of the abstract release---likely while visiting Pitchfork or encountering a scarf-clad obeyer of Pitchfork---or as it's described in the trailer above, the first "visual album" from Animal Collective and their video director buddy Danny Perez. Said to have taken four years to complete and running an hour long, Oddsac has more in common with a postgrad's well-funded idea for a Merry Pranksters acid test-as-nightmare than with the...
- 3/8/2010
- by Hunter Stephenson
- Slash Film
It was hard enough watching Animal Collective's "visual album" Oddsac and coming up with a review of a movie that stretched the boundaries of narrative, logic and terror. But then the next day I actually sat down to interview some of the smartest guys in the music business, and the director, Danny Perez, who helped them put together a visual album that, in a strange way, fits perfectly with the sonic collages the band has created. They wouldn't tell me how they created some of the more mysterious sounds heard in the film, or how some of the fascinating visual tricks were achieved, but we did talk about how the film reflects the band's musical evolution over the past few years, and how their collaboration changes when working with a director like Perez. Absent Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear), band members Josh Dibb (Deakin), David Portner (Avey...
- 2/3/2010
- cinemablend.com
Rating: 8/10
Director/Editor: Danny Perez
Music: Animal Collective
I’m really not sure where to begin this review. I guess I could start by saying that Oddsac is a very odd name, but it’s fitting when referring to its creators, director Danny Perez and the widely popular indie band, Animal Collective. Danny is the guy who does visuals at the Animal Collective shows (he also directed the “Who Could Win a Rabbit?” and “Summertime Clothes” music videos), so if you’ve been to one of the group’s shows, then you know your eyes are in for a rare treat.
Read more on Sundance 2010 Review: Oddsac…...
Director/Editor: Danny Perez
Music: Animal Collective
I’m really not sure where to begin this review. I guess I could start by saying that Oddsac is a very odd name, but it’s fitting when referring to its creators, director Danny Perez and the widely popular indie band, Animal Collective. Danny is the guy who does visuals at the Animal Collective shows (he also directed the “Who Could Win a Rabbit?” and “Summertime Clothes” music videos), so if you’ve been to one of the group’s shows, then you know your eyes are in for a rare treat.
Read more on Sundance 2010 Review: Oddsac…...
- 1/29/2010
- by Chase Whale
- GordonandtheWhale
Animal Collective want to ensure that it's not just Sundance audiences that get the privilege of viewing "Oddsac," it's "visual album" crafted with director Danny Perez. The New York-based troupe told HitFix that they plan to stop off at other film festivals, as well as plan screenings of different shapes and sizes, leading up to a June release of the film on DVD. Click here to read a fuller description of the film, culled from its Sundance premiere. Just getting up to this year's film fest in Park City, though, was a long process, one that took Perez and band members...
- 1/28/2010
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
While our Sundance home page is the place for all our coverage from Park City, here is a brief rundown of what's been going on during the last 24 hours, including Matt Singer's interview with "The Freebie" writer/director Katie Aselton and co-star Dax Shepard and reviews of the Chace Crawford drama "Twelve," the Banksy doc "Exit Through the Gift Shop," Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut "Jack Goes Boating" and the 3D Aussie doc "Cane Toads 2: The Conquest."
Some were puzzled when Sundance accepted "Batman and Robin" director Joel Schumacher's latest film "Twelve." James Rocchi writes that the concern was justified. Here's an excerpt from his review, which can be found in full here:
Directed by Joel Schumacher ("Batman and Robin," "The Lost Boys"), "Twelve" is unquestionably the funniest film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; if only it had been made with that intention. "Twelve"'s ham-handed ineptitude...
Some were puzzled when Sundance accepted "Batman and Robin" director Joel Schumacher's latest film "Twelve." James Rocchi writes that the concern was justified. Here's an excerpt from his review, which can be found in full here:
Directed by Joel Schumacher ("Batman and Robin," "The Lost Boys"), "Twelve" is unquestionably the funniest film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival; if only it had been made with that intention. "Twelve"'s ham-handed ineptitude...
- 1/28/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
I would usually try my best to remain as objective as possible when reviewing a film, but with Oddsac It’s almost required to make an exception. That’s because Oddsac is such a subjective film that it will no doubt be a different experience for everyone who watches it. I understand how cliche that sounds, but it couldn’t be any truer with this film. I understand the polarity that will come from audiences after watching it, but the film is the music of Animal Collective in a visual medium. Directed by Danny Perez, and scored by Animal Collective, Oddsac is a very pure collaboration between the five artists (four members of the band plus the director.) I’ve seen a lot of experimental films, but Oddsac stands out as one of my favorites, mostly by being the most entertaining and harshly beautiful. The film is a collection of...
- 1/28/2010
- by AJ
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Oddsac, a 53-minute experimental film scored by psychedelic indie favorites Animal Collective, is a cortex-punishing experience. Like the demonic product of the unholy union of Stan Brakhage, Matthew Barney and an Elvira and the Party Monsters pinball machine, this "visual album," as the band and director Danny Perez refer to it, seeks to provide a visual palette to accompany the band's hard-to-describe signature sound -- a potent mixed-bag of atonal chords and crunches glossed with surf rock harmonizing. But be warned: If your familiarity with the band is limited to the more accessible stuff on Merriweather Post Pavillion, Oddsac's jarring, horror-tinged soundtrack might put you off. For his part, Perez manages to concoct a bizarre and eclectic visual soup that frequently returns to the great outdoors: it opens with dark figures spinning hypnotic fireballs in an open field, then introduces us to a velvet-cloaked figure literally washing his balls...
- 1/27/2010
- Movieline
There's something not quite right about sending a movie writer to cover what the director is calling a "visual album." Sure I can tell you about how music works in a film, but when it comes to critiquing music itself, and a movie built specifically to go around that music instead of vice-versa, I'm a lost cause. So I'm not really sure if the Animal Collective and Danny Perez collaboration Oddsac is genius or insane or some combination of the two, or the if the low-fi hallucinatory visuals here represent some great leap for music movies-- I'll leave that to Pitchfork to sort out. What I do know is that Oddsac definitely doesn't look like anything I've seen at Sundance, or maybe even in my life, and at its best moments captures some of the aural layers and intensity of the band's music itself. If you're going for "visual album,...
- 1/27/2010
- cinemablend.com
Follow Katie Hasty and her travels at Sundance on Twitter, /katieaprincess. “Oddsac” is not a traditional film, let alone a concert film or music video or a strictly experimental exercise. A film like this that takes four to five years to complete is no exercise. Animal Collective and frequent collaborator Danny Perez created a very colorful movie that entirely lacks a plot, but is a series of musical and visual motifs to make a whole, an album with pictures. It kick-starts with what seems to be headlights on tall grass, and that’s as explicable and transparent as “Oddsac” gets. It clocks...
- 1/27/2010
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
The visual album. A dying breed of a thing that’s going the way of the CD. The last one I saw was Daft Punk’s Electroma a gorgeous film that I thoroughly enjoyed and down right love, even if I’m not a huge fan of the music. I expect that Animal Collective’s Oddsac which is premiering at Sundance, isn’t going to be the same pleasant experience.
Directed by Danny Perez, this is going to be a trip of a film, if you can even call it a film. I’m more inclined to call this an experience. Here’s the official scoop:
Animal Collective’s music is a glittering mix of pop rock, experimental noise, and horror-movie soundtrack. Perez’s visuals mirror that, incorporating intense scenes of vampires, campfires, and screaming prophets to form themes and a distinct vision, rather than following a traditional plot and dialogue.
Directed by Danny Perez, this is going to be a trip of a film, if you can even call it a film. I’m more inclined to call this an experience. Here’s the official scoop:
Animal Collective’s music is a glittering mix of pop rock, experimental noise, and horror-movie soundtrack. Perez’s visuals mirror that, incorporating intense scenes of vampires, campfires, and screaming prophets to form themes and a distinct vision, rather than following a traditional plot and dialogue.
- 1/26/2010
- QuietEarth.us
It's Day 6 for us at Sundance, and while the nights of little sleep and bass-thumping after-parties are adding up, our enthusiasm to attack everything this festival has to offer does not wane. How can it when we have such a stellar schedule ahead of us?
Today's interviews include Diego Luna ("Abel), Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska ("The Kids Are All Right"), Katie Holmes, Malin Ackerman, Elijah Wood and Adam Brody ("The Romantics"), the guys from Animal Collective ("Oddsac") and more.
When it comes to sitting down in front of the big screen, we're looking to take in Jesse Eisenberg's "Holy Rollers," Katie Holmes' "The Romantics" and a handful of other flicks we haven't yet had the pleasure of viewing. Throughout the day we'll be rolling out our Sundance content all over MTV News. So keep checking back for the very latest and the very greatest from this year's fest.
Today's interviews include Diego Luna ("Abel), Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska ("The Kids Are All Right"), Katie Holmes, Malin Ackerman, Elijah Wood and Adam Brody ("The Romantics"), the guys from Animal Collective ("Oddsac") and more.
When it comes to sitting down in front of the big screen, we're looking to take in Jesse Eisenberg's "Holy Rollers," Katie Holmes' "The Romantics" and a handful of other flicks we haven't yet had the pleasure of viewing. Throughout the day we'll be rolling out our Sundance content all over MTV News. So keep checking back for the very latest and the very greatest from this year's fest.
- 1/26/2010
- by Eric Ditzian
- MTV Movies Blog
As a huge fan of Animal Collective, the fact that they have a feature film collaboration with Danny Perez which is premiering at Sundance got me instantly excited. Then I found out they would be at the festival and doing interviews…book it. As far as I can tell, Animal Collective got together with Danny Perez, they wrote an entire score while he took a bunch of badass imagery and layered it over the tracks. For those of you that don’t know, this is Danny Perez’s first feature length film, and has previously worked on concert projections for some of my favorite bands. If you dont see this film at Sundance, I believe it will have some sort of theatrical run…but why wait?
Official Synopsis:
Oddsac, a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez, will have its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival,...
Official Synopsis:
Oddsac, a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez, will have its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival,...
- 1/16/2010
- by Scott
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Just what is a "visual album," anyway? Animal Collective, along with filmmaker Danny Perez, hope to educate their fans on the terminology when their film "Oddsac" premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Ut on January 26.
After over four years of collaboration, the band and Perez will present a film that features an original score of new songs that won't appear in any other form. "It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure," the filmmaker said.
While it doesn't look like Animal Collective fans will be able to find an album available to download or buy in stores, the film will hit theaters in April and May and make its way to DVD in June.
In the meantime, enjoy an exclusive psychedelic image from the visual album "Oddsac.
After over four years of collaboration, the band and Perez will present a film that features an original score of new songs that won't appear in any other form. "It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure," the filmmaker said.
While it doesn't look like Animal Collective fans will be able to find an album available to download or buy in stores, the film will hit theaters in April and May and make its way to DVD in June.
In the meantime, enjoy an exclusive psychedelic image from the visual album "Oddsac.
- 1/12/2010
- by Rachel Josue
- MTV Movies Blog
Something tells me I'll be indulging in the Nf section with a quota of at least three works. Dammit, I'm already breaking out in hives with the monstrous task ahead of me of covering the festival from top to bottom. - This year's New Frontier section, a collection of six works that bend the rules of cinema, and are generally neglected from the press includes Johan Grimonprez's Double Take (another picture that received its North American premiere at the Nouveau Cinema Festival in Montreal, making the Park City screening a U.S. premiere. Something tells me I'll be indulging in the Nf section with a quota of at least three works. Dammit, I'm already breaking out in hives with the monstrous task ahead of me of covering the festival from top to bottom. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers / USA (Director and screenwriter: Tim Rutili)&mdash...
- 12/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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