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Fantasy Killer

Director: Ivan Anderson / John Marty
Music Video: Animation
Experimental | USA | 3 min

The supersaturated colors, glitchy special effects, and extremely fast-paced editing style are all inspired by the bewildering experience of adolescence. Like the song accompanying it, the video is meant to be a hyper dose of glitched-out yearning, specifically the frantic, wide-eyed yearning of middle school. A sensory experience- both giddy and nonverbal. The basic idea here was:  a music video my 13-year-old-self would have created; if I could’ve put my forehead near a computer and pushed “AirDrop.”

Think: Stanley Kubrick uploading his consciousness into a Super Nintendo.

Director’s bio:

Ivan Anderson is a musician, comedian, and video artist based in New York City.
He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and the sole permanent member of the glitch-rock band ‘Cyberattack’, which was described as “a glittery pop arrow” by Modern Music Maker. Ivan is also the creator of ‘Email Pro’, a long-running form of email-based performance art, currently held at the Tank theater in Manhattan. Exeunt NYC described it as “the most millennial thing ever.”

John Marty is an experimental filmmaker who works with analog and digital mediums. Based in New York City, he’s had his work shown in festivals throughout the United States. His first feature film used ethnographic methods to explore the mysterious world of truffle hunting in Italy. John graduated from Hampshire College in the spring of 2016 and worked the following year as the Alumni Intern for the Film/Photo/Video Program.