“I’m gonna take a stab at this
Surely we’ll be alright
Make a decision with a kiss
Maybe I have frostbite
And when I shuffled on back home
I made sure all my tracks in the snow were gone”
 
It seems a ritual, about love or perhaps a greeting, a farewell, something we can not understand, we can just feel an unusual way.
A meeting from a culture that we don’t know about, We are fascinated spectators.
Fascinated about the world of Allison Schulnik, the filmmaker behind the video of Grizzly Bear, an indie rock band from Brooklyn.
 
Allison moves with ease between paintings, strange looking clown-demons sculptures and stop-motion movies influenced by master like Jan Svankmeyer, Wladyslaw Starewicz and many others without lost her unique vision.
 
The use of claymation lets Allison to create weird creatures full of colors that seems to breathe, to feel, to tremble with emotions, expressing themselves through mutations and body modifications.
To recreate the natural environment, the magical forest, she gathered natural stuff like grass, plants, woods, around Big Bear and mix real elements with her painting or glass/plastic sculpture (the spaceship).
While for the main attractions (the monsters, of course) she sculpted around 9,000 frames, working several weeks, to create a sequence of about 8 minutes, edited to the four minutes length of song all that using Dragonframe software (used also by Tim Burton for Frankeweenie) and the help of her friend, Helder Kind Sun for lighting.
 
These odd creatures are recurring in the Allison’s poetic, so if you like the video, you have to see all her works.
You could do strange encounters.