2009DVD15 tracks

Minilogue - Animals

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Label
Cocoon Recordings
Catnum
CORDVD001
Released
2009
Type
DVD

With 'Animals - The Movie', Minilogue's visual world comes fully into existence. The film is divided into fifteen chapters. Each chapter has a topic of its own and develops a unique visual style. All parts are connected by a certain theme: the conjunctive concept of the film is the idea of universal transformation and movement, which is represented in the animals. The artists follow the surrealist credo that everything is linked with everything else in a hidden way. The only way to uncover these links is art. With its irresistible synthetic dynamics, the film reveals these secret connections. The first chapter puts beautiful old drawings of unfamiliar foreign animals in a memory game. The game sets the whole screen in motion, the animals become part of an unstoppable transformation. After this initializing prologue, the film starts with a labyrinth of windows. Yet there is no floor, no walls and no ceiling: it is the space of a surrealist image. We enter an old barn, which opens to a large landscape with artificial trees. No entity is fixed anymore, everything becomes open and moving. It turns dark, and the trees are immersed in a thick layer of fog. In a very tense and exciting moment, a very special animal appears: At first we only see the texture of a Leopard's skin - but it is not the fur of a real animal, but the artificial fur of a toy pet. As we get a glimpse on the whole animal, we realize it's not a leopard, but a fantasy-animal with the body of a penguin, the nose and ears of a pig and the horns of an rhinoceros and it starts a charming dance to Minilogue's elegant music.