Sundance 2010 Preview: ODDSAC

As a huge fan of Animal Collective, the fact that they have a feature film collaboration with Danny Perez which is premiering at Sundance got me instantly excited. Then I found out they would be at the festival and doing interviews…book it. As far as I can tell, Animal Collective got together with Danny Perez, they wrote an entire score while he took a bunch of badass imagery and layered it over the tracks. For those of you that don’t know, this is Danny Perez’s first feature length film, and has previously worked on concert projections for some of my favorite bands. If you dont see this film at Sundance, I believe it will have some sort of theatrical run…but why wait?

Official Synopsis:

ODDSAC, a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez, will have its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, January 26th, 2010 in the New Frontiers section. The film was co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, whose 2009 album “Merriweather Post Pavilion” was named album of the year by SPIN, EW, and Pitchfork, and topped critic’s end of year lists worldwide. ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral, immersive experience.

ODDSAC features an original score with new songs from the band and complex digital manipulation by Perez, a debut filmmaker and visual artist known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear. ODDSAC represents a new synthesis of music and film, a “visual album” whose songs will not be released in any other form. ODDSAC is the result of over four years of intense collaboration between Perez and the band. “It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure,” said Perez.

ODDSAC plays at the following times:

Tuesday, January 26, 8:30pm – Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Thursday, January 28, 10:30pm – Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City
Friday, January 29, 9:30pm – Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City
Saturday, January 30, 6:00pm – Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC