The Acorn 'Flood Pt. 1' from the album 'Glory Hope Mountain'

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March 27, 2008

The Acorn -- Flood Pt.1 (watch in full screen mode for best viewing) Flood Pt. 1 is a modern fable with many hidden meanings in the video's several twists and turns. A penny falls from the sky an...

The Acorn -- Flood Pt.1 (watch in full screen mode for best viewing)

Flood Pt. 1 is a modern fable with many hidden meanings in the video's several twists and turns.

A penny falls from the sky and begins a cataclysmic chain of events.

A glacier falls from a subarctic cliff and wakes a giant who sleeps beneath the sea.

The angry giant unleashes his fury in the form of a Tsunami which forms into evil storm clouds that spew rain storms of treasure and gold into a bucolic river, where our hero (and heroine) are picking snails.

The two escape the storm in their small boat, and are carried on this current of disaster. Joined by a wise old snail, they witnesss burning carnivals, Escaped zoo animals, and trashed trailer parks, and other such melee as they make their way to the shore.

They dance with lions, and cross a desert, cluttered with dinosaur bones and hidden treasures, and climb on board a flying turtle who takes them on a harrowing journey into the sky, through the carnival, and to a safe place in the grass.

They plant a snail and are catapulted into outer space, saved by a forgotten satellite.

As they peer down towards the earth, a penny falls from our heroine's pocket, starting the chain all over again.

The video was largely hand-crafted in the winter of 2007 / 08 by a dedicated team of welders, illustrators, dancers, model makers and animators. The story is told using a bizarre range of life-sized dancing drawings, to raw archival video footage, to puppets made of foam to glaciers made out of wedding cake.

CREDITS

Production Company - Number Four Films Incorporated

Producer / Director / DOP / Animation / Post FX - Christopher Mills

Dancer / Puppeteer - Andrea Spaziani

Editor / Post FX - Marc DePape

Assistant Editor - Winston Hacking

Art Direction / Production Design - Geordie Lishman, Nicole Aline Legault

Props Builders / Craftspeople -

Reuben Baker
Cameron Balmer
Kayleigh Bathurst
Shawn Begin
Letisha Crombie
Daniel Flavelle
Anthony James
Kyle Jordan
Ionela Klompmaker
Aaron Lavigne
Nicolee Layne
Daniel Morrell
Chris Neves
Paula Nichols
Patrick Rhodes
Dylan Croucher
Anthony D'amato
Galen Dafoe
Rachel Dormon
Jason Edmunds
Dayna George
Andrew Gilbert
Brett Gosling
Ryan Kitagawa
Carmelo Magno
Peter Mendler
Robynne Meringer
Kennett Morgan
David Newman
Brittany Pap
Shadat Patwary
Laura Pitcher
Michelle Spencer
Ryan Stephens
Julisa Stuart
Rachel Weller
Julisa Stuart
Jennifer Wilson
Kevin Zimny

Special Thanks to Durham College

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loved this record for a while. great video, hard to watch in limited quality of youtube.

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literally the best thing that has ever happened to me.

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I LOVE THIS SONG!
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ZEBRA STAMPEDE!!!! <3

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this is a really well done video, definitely one of my favourites this year.

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this video feels a lot like modest mouse's float on's

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i see where your coming from

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Wow. so well done.

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wow, this is so cool great job!

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