Official music video for the song "Joy" by Iron and Wine from the album Ghost on Ghost.
Quote from NPR:
"Deep inside the heart of this crazy mess, I'm only calm when I get lost within your wilderness."
That's a key line in this song, "Joy," by Iron and Wine, the project of Sam Beam. Sam is a songwriter who has a way of making the personal very universal. It's also the line that piqued the interest of director Hayley Morris, who made a video for "Joy." Morris writes to us:
"When brainstorming ideas for possible narratives and visual interpretations of the song 'Joy' by Iron and Wine, I was drawn to that particular lyric. This is what sparked my idea. 'Joy' is a song about love and taking a moment to realize how someone can vastly change how you perceive yourself and the world around you."
In the video, Hayley Morris uses the camera as the "voice" of the song, to show how the woman Sam Beam sings about changes his world. "Through his eyes we see how [she] changes his world and fills it with color," Morris writes. "You catch glimpses of her within the different plants, rocks, trees, and objects that occupy this world. My goal was to have the viewer feel the effect on him through bursts of color, growth and transformation. The video was made by projecting hand-painted water color animations into stop-motion landscapes."
Credits
Artist: Iron and Wine
Director/Animator: Hayley Morris
Fabricators: Hayley Morris, Denise Hauser and Randy Bretzin
Color Correction: Evan Kultangwatana
Model for watercolor animation: Louise Sheldon
Record Label: Nonesuch Records
Cast: Hayley Morris and Denise Hauser
Tags: Iron and Wine, Animation, Stop-Motion, watercolor, hand-drawn, music and music video
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