Music Video
The Premier of Shadow Theatre Music Video
Hi All,
Our latest music video, Shadow Theatre is up on the Indie88 website today. Please have a look!
http://indie88.com/video-premiere-papermaps-shadow-theatre/
“The video marks the directorial debut of photographer Daniel Ehrenworth. Through distorted lenses, decomposing videotape, and discarded old film, he tells an interwoven story of past lives, performing birds, and a naked lady bound to a staircase.”
We’re very excited!
Cheers,
-dean
New Music Video for “Nobody Gets It,” by Kerry Shaw
Since Monday (six days ago) our latest music video for “Nobody Gets It,” has been available for stream on Exclaim.ca. The video is now available on YOUTUBE for the rest of the world to see:
This video was envisioned and directed by the very talented photographer Kerry Shaw. We here in the PAPERMAPS camp love it! It’s hard to describe. Perhaps Kerry’s own words sum it up best:
“Nobody’s perfect. A notion we tend to forget when we look at our partner, our colleagues, our family, ourselves. We are creatures of expectation and with that comes the tendency to overlook just how amazing the people truly are around us. Papermaps have compiled a song that explores the anger in desiring perfection, the frustration of someone not living up to our idea of who we think they should be. Perfect. I contradict these lyrics with a montage of appreciation. Specifically, images of women. The female form, movement and overall imperfections and actions of women. All kinds of women…This is not an in-your-face, socio-political “oh, look at how women are being over-sexuallised/distorted in media/over-beautied” kind of dialogue. Rather, this is a study of the female face, body, hair, movement, etc. A slightly dark celebration.”
For us in the group it was a fun and simple video to make. We each only had to be there a few hours or so. The bulk of the video was done over several days in Kerry’s studio with the many lovely models. We are thankful to all the ladies who volunteered their time and image for this video – you are the real stars! This clip features all the members of PAPERMAPS lip syncing the song, including Wendy and Todd who had officially left the group before filming but gracefully agreed to participate. This video is not only a celebration of beauty in diversity but is also, on a more personal level, a celebration of PAPERMAPS’ former lineup.
Have a look and let us know what you think!
-d
NEW MUSIC VIDEO
Right now, our friends at NXEW Blog are streaming our latest clip for “There are Wolves” – the first single from our new record, Inferior Ghost (Out August 28th).
Check it out.