All the delicious tackiness that came out of corporate America in the 1980s gets rolled up and made snort-able at once in the new collage-based music video for singer songwriter Ernest Greene, better known by his stage name, Washed Out. For "Get Lost," Greene collaborated on its with director Harvey Benschoter, a filmmaker whose experimental animation projects inspired the video's visual aesthetic.
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Sourcing what look like cutouts from old issues of Esquire, Benschoter builds a remarkably detailed world that echoes the vintage print collages of artist Jordan Westre. In "Get Lost," we move through meticulously constructed frames, but it quickly becomes clear that these photos are anything but static. Greene says a large part of his creative process involved watching animated videos online, which ultimately led him to Benschoter's work. "In my opinion, our styles are very similar—we both take random pieces of found objects / sounds and collage them together into something new (and hopefully equal parts funny and psychedelic)…To me, the video reminds me of the best / worst cheeseball comedies from the 80's. I still don't know how he does what does—but that is the magic of experimental animation!" Watch the music video below:
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