Oddsac is described as a visual album by Animal Collective and Danny Perez. It comes in DVD sized book pack containing caption-less photo collages that look like the result of a school project under the working title such as ‘Why I like Being Psychedelic’ .
Aside from members of Animal Collective, the cast list is headed by characters named Oozegirl (Kat Stroot) and Oozefigure (Kellie Jo Tinney) and according to the cast list also features a mother, father , five “SE kids”, four “foodfight girls”, one dog (Molly Durga Dibb), six characters called ‘fire’ and one fire coordinator.
The movie was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010 and is the result of four years of collaboration between the band and maverick film director Danny Perez .
Perez cut his video-making teeth with another electronic/noise band from Brooklyn, Black Dice and first worked with Animal Collective on the video for Who Could Win A Rabbit? in 2004. He has also directed the video for Summertime Clothes.
Do not expect to see an extended video here, however. In fact, you shouldn’t expect anything linear either . Someone described it as a “non-straightforward surrealist romp” which sounds about right. Continue reading
