Video

"The Ceiling", Mad Velvet




Duration 4:30
Video, animation, art by Sonja Kröhn (La Petite Sonja)
Analogue street effects and acting by Maxmilián Hruška
Music by Maxmilián Hruška - Mad Velvet (Fialový samet)
Mixed and mastered by Adam Bláha
Graphic design by Hank J. Manchini
Drug me Records 2023
Mad Velvet /  Drug me records Youtube channel /  Sandstudios ...

We created an animated video for "Mad Velvet", the solo project of Madhouse Express frontman Maxmilián Hruška. Sonja Kröhn (La Petite Sonja) designed, directed, art directed and filmed the entire piece in the modest conditions of a home office over several months. Sonja was inspired by the psychedelic patterns of the 60s, to which she created an old-school stop-motion alternative using marshmallows, lollipops, sweets, flowers and feathers. The main character is an animated marshmallow, a bit of a dancer, a bit of a lion tamer, a bit of a dreamer who permeates Maximilian's hypnagogic hallucination. Maxmilián has supplemented the video with real night lights that flash on the ceiling of his bedroom at night, so that the viewer becomes part of his daydream. The enchanting song "The Ceiling" takes us into a fabulously bizarre world between dream and alternate reality.

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"Hot lava", Music by Moimir Papalescu & the Nihilists



Duration 3:35
Music by Moimir Papalescu & the Nihilists
Lyrics by Sonja Kröhn (La Petite Sonja)
Idea Hank J. Manchini
Screenplay, directed & photographed by Hank J. Manchini & La Petite Sonja
Edited, animated and postproduction by La Petite Sonja & Hank J. Manchini
Mixed and mastered by Amák Golden
Graphic design by Hank J. Manchini
Starring: Moimir Papalescu, La Petite Sonja, Hank J. Manchini, Leontýnka Marie, Rosalia von Vinohrady
Produced by Drug Me Records, 2024
Moimir Papalescu & the Nihilists /  Drug me records Youtube channel /  Sandstudios ...

#Moimir Papalescu & the Nihilists #LaPetiteSonja #Sandstudios #DrugMeRecords #stopmotion #animation #Sonja_Krohn #Prague #psychedelic