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Music video for track Pigsy in Space: Damon Albarn's Journey to the West theatre production. Won First Prize for Student D&AD 09 music video brief.

In short, a contemporary twist on the traditional Chinese myth of Monkey Journey to the West. This film has was exhibited at Futuremap '09 and D&AD new blood exhibitions.

In collaboration with Anastasia Afonina, Mel Hsieh & Sam Pilling

"Future Map hails the work of 24 artists graduating from across the University of the Arts. The four panel members, selected from powerful echelons of the art world, sift through work from 200 courses, supposedly distilling the crème de la crème of emerging young talent. Staged in the 20 Hoxton Square Projects, works are paraded in front of an influential audience, eager to spot or snap up the next big thing.

Pigsy in Space is not only conspicuous for it's technically accomplished puppetry but also seems to be a clever comment on the imbalance between expectation, consumption and equivalent reality."

Review by Josie Breese at murmurART