Plants and Animals – H.C.
2012 · Directed by Aimée van Drimmelen
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1.“I meant to type 'h&m' into Google because I was looking for faux leather boots, but accidentally typed 'hc' and this came up... and I'm not disappointed at all. Now back to my boot search, haha.”
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- 2.“My phone fell on my keyboard and it typed 'hc,' and I randomly clicked this, lol.”
- 3.“This is amazing – we were all brought here because of a typo.”
The story
H.C. is the shortest thing on The End of That, the 2012 album by Montreal trio Plants and Animals. On the record it runs under a minute. Aimée van Drimmelen, an artist from Victoria, British Columbia, who makes art by day and music by night, turned it into an animated short about a minute and a half long, and she produced, directed and animated it herself.
Her raw material was hand-drawn imagery and looped Super 8 footage of light and shadows dancing across the surface of an old marching band drum. Kees Dekker did the sound design. According to a 2013 AI-AP piece, the song inspired her second animated short. A drum, some flickering light and a pencil. Plenty.
