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Tulipomania: (This Gilded Age) So What Are You Looking At?

A barrage of animated paint and collage ripped and reconfigured from print and film, presenting unsettling shifting surfaces. While the song’s repeated refrain suggests questionable motives by a reliably unreliable narrator, the imagery pounds out
a sinister beat of disintegration.
The animation was created by band members Cheryl Gelover and Tom Murray frame by frame, on thousands of individual sheets of paper.

  • Cheryl Gelover
    Director
  • Tom Murray
    Director
  • Cheryl Gelover
    Animation
  • Tom Murray
    Animation
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    music clip, animation, collage, experimental, short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 31, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    D-SLR
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Animation Block Party
    Brooklyn
    United States
    September 21, 2019
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • StopTrik International Film Festival
    Maribor
    Slovenia
    October 4, 2019
    Official Selection
  • StopTrik International Film Festival
    Lodz
    Poland
    Official Selection
  • Columbus International Film and Animation Festival
    Columbus
    United States
    April 30, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Video Art and Experimental Film Festival
    New York
    November 20, 2019
  • Montréal International Animation Film Festival

    screening date to be announced
  • New Renaissance Film Festival
    London
    September 10, 2020
  • Boston Underground Film Festival
    Boston
  • ReAnima
    Bergen
    Official Selection
  • Chicago Arthouse Film Festival

    Finalist
  • Animocje
    Bydgoszczy
    Poland
    Official Selection; special music video screening
  • Film Maudit
    Santa Monica
    United States
    January 12, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray

Tulipomania has alternately been categorized as ‘cult synth punks’, ‘glam-leaning’, ‘postpunk’, ‘art-rock’, and ‘muscular chamber pop’.

While band members Tom Murray (lead vocals, bass,
drums) and Cheryl Gelover (synthesizer, background vocals) enjoy deciphering efforts to categorize their sound, they decline to offer a specific label of their own.

The two first met in Art school, and found themselves collaborating on projects for Experimental Film and Animation classes–Tulipomania grew along with those experiences.
Described as “artistic and inventive” and “gorgeous,” music videos created by Tulipomania have been featured in film festivals worldwide, including the London Short Film Festival (England), Leeds International Film Festival (England), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, England), Encounters (Bristol,England), Zubroffka (Poland), and StopTrik (Croatia, Poland).

A complete list of festival screenings is available on request.

Last November, the duo contributed over an hour of collage and mixed media animation projected over seven screens in support of Pixies 30th anniversary performances of the band’s first releases, Come on Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa, working in collaboration with the acclaimed graphic artist Vaughan Oliver.

Tulipomania are currently at work on a new release of their own and supporting animated music videos.

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