Father John Misty - Please Don't Die

What this video is

Released May 30, 2018 as the fourth single from God's Favorite Customer (Sub Pop / Bella Union, June 1, 2018), Father John Misty's fourth studio album. The video arrives amid a broader late-2010s renaissance of craft-based, hand-made music video aesthetics as a counter-reaction to slick digital CGI production — stop-motion in particular signaling sincerity, labor, and artistic intentionality. Thematically, the song…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark of 2010s literary indie folk's engagement with the art-music-video form. Hopewell's stop-motion craft elevates the video beyond promotional content into a short animated film, extending a tradition traceable from Jan Švankmajer through the Brothers Quay to Nick Park.…

The director

Chris Hopewell is a Bristol-based stop-motion animation director affiliated with Jacknife Films, Ridley Scott Associates, and Black Dog Films. He is best known for directing Radiohead's 'Burn The Witch' (2016), Run The Jewels' 'Don't Get Captured,' Franz…