Ulver create a Kickstart to fund their new animated music video

For a new animated music video of Ulver‘s track “Hollywood Babylon,” Ulver and AKFF! are hoping to collaborate once more. The Norwegian black metal band turned ambient experimentalists’ most recent album, “Liminal Animals,” includes that song, which made its premiere this past July. Ulver previously collaborated with AKFF! on their animated “It Is Not Sound” clip. In order to make the video a reality, the two parties are now trying to raise about $4,100 USD through Kickstarter.

Imagine ULVER’s thought-provoking ”Hollywood Babylon” accompanied by a new music video by AKFF!, set in a futuristic world influenced by the theme and aesthetics of movies like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) Nosferatu (1922), Metropolis (1927) and Tron (1982). A very shallow and self indulgent world, not unlike our own time, focused on image, looks and facade, as a striking visual metaphor for the alienation and obsession of modern society. Taking inspiration from the highly evocative lyrics to the song, the story revolves around a heroine set on restoring her slowly but inevitably fading beauty. She is hard at work, creating a bettered version of herself on the Face Remodeller, an arcade machine that offers convenient means to mold yourself a new face. But the experience goes awry when the model materialises as a grotesque reflection of the heroines shortcomings, a doppelgänger set on replacing her in the real world… AKFF!

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