Thom Yorke Debuts Hand-Drawn “Last I Heard (…He Was Circling The Drain)” Video
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Thom Yorke’s latest music video, “Last I Heard (…He Was Circling The Drain),” is a haunting animation composed of over 3,000 hand-illustrated frames.
Directed by Art Camp and Saad Moosajee, the five-minute clip is set in a dream world inspired by fragments of Yorke and Stanley Donwood’s imagination. To celebrate the video’s release, ANIMA Technologies opened its L.A. offices with a three-day immersive first-look event—the first clips of the film were shown throughout the ANIMA Technologies offices on desktop monitors, as well as on a custom-constructed TV wall. Sound experience was provided by Sonos.
Art Camp shared a lengthy statement unpacking their process of interpreting the latest track from Yorke’s current album, ANIMA:
Our first and last goal was to serve the feelings of the song and the record. Thom shared a list of visions with us, disconnected images from his dreams, and we expanded on it with visions from everyone who joined the video team, over a dozen of us. At its core, our intention was to communicate the experience of feeling completely on your own, surrounded by people you see yourself in but don’t understand, who have lost their minds to the city and can’t see that you need their help.