The Ceiling

We created an animated video for "Mad Velvet", the solo project of Madhouse Express frontman Maxmilián Hruška. Sonja Kröhn (La Petite Sonja) designed, directed, art directed and filmed the entire piece in the modest conditions of a home office over several months. Sonja was inspired by the psychedelic patterns of the 60s, to which she created an old-school stop-motion alternative using marshmallows, lollipops, sweets, flowers and feathers. The main character is an animated marshmallow, a bit of a dancer, a bit of a lion tamer, a bit of a dreamer who permeates Maximilian's hypnagogic hallucination. Maxmilián has supplemented the video with real night lights that flash on the ceiling of his bedroom at night, so that the viewer becomes part of his daydream. The enchanting song "The Ceiling" takes us into a fabulously bizarre world between dream and alternate reality.