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Following the release of critically acclaimed new album Earth To Dora, EELS return with a stop-motion animated music video for the album’s title track. The video arrives just before Earth Day and is directed by Isabel Garret and produced by Chris Murdoch of PRETTYBIRD. Watch HERE.
The music video finds Dora stranded on the moon, surrounded by otherworldly sadness and surreal depictions of misery, and it’s up to E to convince her it’s time to come back down to Earth. Immortalized in paint by award-winning Welsh director Isabel Garrett, E and Dora’s story plays out across a mystical stop-motion animation tale of friendship and support.
E says: “Earth to Dora. Come in, Dora. Did you know tomorrow is Earth Day? Come down to Earth and celebrate with us.”
Director Isabel Garrett writes: “The song is about E trying to cheer up an old friend over text. There’s something magical and otherworldly about the lyrics that made me think of Dora being stuck on another planet, surrounded by misery and needing a route home. For me the song is about the distance that depression creates and the beauty of companionship. I liked the idea of mixing paint with stop motion to make a world which is a bit playful and nostalgic with lots of handmade texture to capture the sensitivity of the lyrics.”
