Devo - Whip It, Claymation on Kodachrome 40 (1982)

Stop-motion animation music video for the Devo song Whip It. I shot this in the spring of 1982 in my parent's basement over the course of several months (10 weeks?). Photographed on Kodachrome 40 super-8 film on a Sankyo EM-40XL. This was animated to a live-action reference performance that was also shot on super-8 film. There was no post-production editing. All "cuts" were made in camera.
I had seriously contemplated doing animation for Swelling Itching Brain, however with a duration of 4.5 minutes it may have taken about 5 months to complete.
Thematically this piece is far more punk than New Wave and could almost be a supporting video for the Dead Kennedy's track: Your Emotions (with it's expression of contempt for those who passively regurgitate the values of others rather than attempt independent thought). This piece conveyed the percolating rage that was a chronic part of my high school experience. There are various, nearly subliminal, images inserted into the piece which are printed propaganda from my public school "alma mater".
A technical note: The company that transferred the Super-8 to U-matic video did a rather careless job, not only excessively cropping (not unprecedented) by they also framed it asymetrically and hacked off the left side. This was most vexing, having paid a full commercial rate for this service at one of the monolithic post-production houses that used to line Grand Avenue in Chicago in the late '80s.
Images by Carl Wiedemann© 1982
Music tracks by Devo (Casale/Mothersbaugh) 1980.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Claymation
• Devo
• Whip It
• super-8 film
• Kodachrome
• experimental film
• animation

[Stinger198]

Fantastic. A+. I can't stop watching this. It is incredible. I'm actually getting a Sankyo Sound XL 420 supertronic in the mail soon and i am hoping that i can make films as awesome as this. I love the way Super 8 film looks.

[valencys]

deserves more views

[FrankHoboMaster]

@SELFsufficiently stop motion pwns cgi

[rubix71]

wow this is incredible!!! and all in-camera! amazing...... have u done any animation since?

[HOTTESTEMOEVER]

jesus! i bet this took days to make just for 2 minutes and 58 seconds lol

[Doppelfisch]

wow, good work man

[dinosaurjr420]

You still should have done S.I.B. Awesome either way.

[MattBL]

That some crazy stuff you made! A+ for you.

[Screengems1]

awesome

[ieatpoopforlunch]

Holy spameater,that was amazing! It looked very official!