Plurabelle – Our Fires (edit by Mattis Dovier)
stellarkinematics.bandcamp.com/track/b3-our-fires
Drawings, animation and editing by Mattis Dovier
Music by Plurabelle ’Our Fires’ from Phantom Pyramid LP out on june 16th on Stellar Kinematics.
Digital LP and/or Vinyl LP Limited to 300 copies : stellarkinematics.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-pyramid
Produced by Stellar Kinematics : stellarkinematics.com/
In addition to pixel art and frame by frame animation, graphics in this video are based on various influences. The main ones arise from the underground manga, especially Maruo Suehiro’s “ero-guro” or erotic-grotesque style (to name one), that mixes both horror and erotic genres. Human passions such as love and violence become exacerbated to their climax, making the man look like a crazy and decadent animal, the whole thing taking the form of a macabre poetry.
Adolescence, embodied by the mutation into a monstrous beast, is a tribute to B-movies, drawing references from John Carpenter’s or illustrator Charles Burns’ universes. Symbolism in the transition into adulthood is seen as a rite of passage, requiring the death of a human being and the birth of another. The hauting mystical song immerses us inexorably into the intricacies of this transformation you can’t avoid, whatever you do.
