With a budget of only $5,000, the Battery Life team had to develop an immersive world through crafty set design and camera work.
Co-directed by Claire Christerson and Sarah Kinlaw, and premiering today on Creators, the video stars the band's lead singer, Kinlaw, as she traverses through magically animated and crafty sets, encountering a variety of other characters donning wings, gruesome makeup, and fleshy outfits.
Along the way, though, the directors (credited at the start of the film as Daniels) keep things creative with a sort of Michel Gondry-like spirit, shattering reality with crafty set-pieces drawn from the characters' imagination.
Though known best to Americans for his work on the deadly serious "Dark Materials" books, Philip Pullman taps into his funny side with the wholly lighthearted "Two Crafty Criminals!," a set of capers previously published in Britain in 1994 and '95 but appearing here for the first time.
Some crafty DIYer created a set of headphones out of a telephone handset and a pair of socks.
The young man is seen in love, in jeopardy and in extremis, surrounded by a familiar gallery of types: a fair, highborn maiden (Amanda Quaid); her pert and crafty maid (Merritt Wever); and a set of rival suitors, one arrogant and violent (Sean Dugan) and the other an arrant buffoon (Peter Bartlett).
On the set of "True Grit," the new Coen brothers western, Hailee Steinfeld established a crafty money-making scheme.
A crafty seat-of-the-pants subculture has long surrounded Grateful Dead shows.
They were low of brow, crafty of eye and crooked of limb.
