LORN - ANVIL

What this video is

Released in September 2016, 'Anvil' arrived during a golden period for short-form animated music videos distributed through Vimeo's creator community. The video engages directly with mid-2010s anxieties around social media ubiquity, digital identity, death, and surveillance — setting its premise in a year-2100 world where a postmortem social network is released as a government solution to overpopulation. This…

Why it matters

A landmark in 2010s animated music video production, 'Anvil' demonstrates the maturation of hybrid 2D/3D animation as a credible short-film form within the music video medium. It advanced the visual vocabulary of IDM and dark electronic music video aesthetics beyond performance-clip conventions,…

The director

GERIKO is a Paris-based French creative duo composed of visual artists and filmmakers Hélène Jeudy and Antoine Caëcke. Working at the intersection of animation, illustration, and filmmaking, their work is characterized by a visual language drawing on anime,…