Feist> Honey Honey
Leslie Feist retuned to her hometown of Calgary to shoot "Honey Honey", the first music video in which the Canadian singer does not star. Instead, the mournful tune's themes of separation and loss are told through puppetry: a lonely old woman waits in a decrepit lighthouse for her seafaring husband to return home from a fishing trip. Directed by Anthony Seck in collaboration with The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, "Honey Honey" is full of subtle movement. The drifting close-ups fill the video with a foreboding tenuousness, while at the same time allowing the audience to linger over the puppets' impressively intricate detailing. [Prodco: Revolver Film Company; Label: Arts & Crafts] KR

Jemapur> AANAATT
One of four music videos commissioned by W+K Tokyo Lab for the release of 21-year-old Japanese producer Jemapur's latest album, "Aanaatt" is as mystifying as its title. The track is of the sparse, bloopy variety one might associate with graphic designers in oppressively-rimmed glasses and Max Hattler's stop-motion, fixed camera video is accordingly abstract. "Aanaatt" might've been overly academic in another director's hands, but the German helmer gives the song a curiously hypnotic warmth by deftly shifting colors, shapes, unrecognizable household objects, and lighting across an ever-changing, multi-layered surface. [Label: W+K Tokyo Lab] KR

ladyhawke> my delerium
Though Ladyhawke's juiced-up arena pop clearly owes sonic gratitude to the big hair babes of yesteryear, her on-screen presence is unfortunately a lot less animated. (Wilde she ain't.) Enter Partizan directing duo Frater (aka Benji Davies and Jim Field), who transform this pouty pop tart into a watercolor road warrior in the video for "My Delirium". In animating Sarah Larnach's illustrations, Frater sends the Kiwi rocker's convertible through a dusty desert, past feline mountain ranges and straight into a purple planetary supernova, capturing the song's epic retro rock pastiche. [Prodco: Partizan; Label: Modular/Universal Island] KR