Venetian Snares: Szamar Madar
(2005)by David O'Reilly is an abstract, stormy animation in which lightning bolts flicker to the syncopated beats of the track while rain pours down on an ancient stone circle.
Shynola subsequently talked so highly of David O'Reilly that video commissioner and co-owner of production company Colonel Blimp, John Hassay, signed him up without having seen any of his work and, in 2005, O'Reilly unleashed his first commissioned promo – for Venetian Snares track Szamar Madar.
The video contains a memorable section where sound and image suddenly cut to a silent blue screen with flickering computer code that makes you think that the equipment you’re watching it on has just died. That screen then twists and morphs back to the animation to appropriately frazzled sounds. That was the last animated music video O’Reilly made, although his reel reveals a cluster of short films produced since, their marked stylistic difference to each other suggesting his desire to experiment with animation techniques and visual style.
Source: Creative Review