EXCLUSIVE: Animal Collective and Director Danny Perez On Their Psychedelic Visual Assault, ODDSAC | Movieline

EXCLUSIVE: Animal Collective and Director Danny Perez On Their Psychedelic Visual Assault, ODDSAC | Movieline:

"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 in a stream (one of the film’s many D&D-nerd-inspired images), and later offers a marshmallow roast gone horribly, horribly wrong." Sphere: Related Content