Band: Ulver
Song: “Hollywood Babylon”
Directed by: Trista Namo
Album: Liminal Animals
Release Date: November 24th, 2024
Label: House of Mythology
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The band’s Kristoffer Rygg (drums, percussion, electronics, synth, vocals) commented:
“Working with our wonderfully mad old friend Christian Mona from the Bogus Blimp days never disappoints. He started to create this video before we released our last album (sorry about that) and he has finally delivered a splendidly grotesque little gem from within his Automated Bathroom. ‘Hollywood Babylon’ has never looked better! It is a distorted mirror of our times. Please feel free to stare into it a little too long.”
Christian Mona of Norwegian visual artist collective AKFF!, who produced the clip, stated:
“2025 marked 20 years since Ulver made the animated music video ‘It Is Not Sound’ in cooperation with us. It has been a hypnotic journey through the Sea of Sorrows all the way to the Pinnacle of Truth. Thinking back on what a great experience it was to visualise and expand on Ulver’s universe, we started wondering why AKFF! hadn’t made more videos with Ulver. As it turns out, Ulver had been thinking along the same lines! And so the making of ‘Hollywood Babylon’ began.”