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A Witch Meets Her Fate in 1,000 Oil Paintings [Music Video]

The Jezabels' "Come Alive" is a visual treat that dabbles in horror, but isn't as depressing as you'd think.
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A mesmerizing new music video for the Jezabels' "Come Alive," from their new album, Synthia, takes the the favored medium of the Impressionists to new heights. Thousands of individual oil paintings, painstakingly animated by Australian production house Oh Yeah Wow's Darcy Prendergast and Xin Li, weave a tale of mob versus witch that jumps straight past the frontal lobe and sucker punches the lizard brain, much like the work of Monet, Renoir, or Pissaro. The group has also made music videos for the likes of Gotye and Slash, and they made the oft-plagiarized Clubfeet joint, "Everything You Wanted." Their newest release is out of left field for Oh Yeah Wow, whose work usually features more traditional animation and stop-motion, but they nail it.

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Watching a witch get burned alive might be hard to take for occult activists or self-identifying feminist witches, but hang in there. This one doesn't shake out like your average execution.

Get tickets for The Jezabels' 2016 tour on their website. See more of Oh Yeah Wow's videos on their website.

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