Music For Plants
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Luke Strickler
Genres: animation, experimental, musical
An animated series pairing musical genres with flower varieties. Brief chapters visualize melodic mashups like Sunflower Ska, Punk Petunias, and Dandelion Dubstep.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Punk Petunias. Dandelion Dubstep. That's the whole pitch and that's why it works — a perfectly stupid idea executed with actual craft. Death to plot, long live taxonomy.
Genre-as-botany taxonomy in animated micro-chapters scored to match — a Saul-Bass-credits-sequence hot-boxed with a botanist's mixtape sounds like absolute fun, even if it's slight.
Genre-as-botany taxonomy in animated micro-chapters scored to match — Sunflower Ska, Club Cactus, Lo-fi Lavender. Each chapter realized in seconds is the right runtime discipline. Pure bauble joy.
Reviews
Its vivid compositions are cleverly devised and evocative, as are the accompanying musical cues