U2 Share Stop-Motion "Volcano" Video From "Films of Innocence" Series

The songs from U2's Songs of Innocence are getting a series of visual companion pieces. "Films of Innocence" is a collection of short films by 11 artists from around the world. It's out tomorrow, December 9. One of the participants is Ganzeer, the Egyptian graphic designer/graphic novelist/videographer, who created the clip for the song "Volcano". Watch it below, via Pitchfork.tv, for the next 24 hours.

U2's inspiration for the project was political murals seen around Northern Ireland. The films are meant to show "the unique democratic power of urban art". Other participants in the multidisciplinary project are Oliver Jeffers, Robin Rhode, D*Face, Mode 2, Chloe Early, Vhils, Maser, ROA, DALeast, and Todd James. Jefferson Hack (of Dazed & Confused magazine) serves as the project's Creative Director. The other 10 films are being posted on various websites today.

The video is a stop-motion film made up of 862 different posters, an impressive technical feat. "I was only given three weeks to work on the thing from start to finish," Ganzeer said in a statement. "An impossible number of posters to design in three weeks, let alone print, and film, frame-by-frame, stop- motion style, and then finally edit into a video synced to the song. So my approach mainly differed in having to deprive myself of sleep and shower much less. That sorta thing :-]"

Ganzeer described his inspiration for his film:

Before the advent of the music video, our only visual representation for a song, band, or album was pretty much whatever existed in print, primarily gig posters and record sleeves. I figured it might be interesting to bring that back into the music video world, by creating a stop-motion film using nothing but posters. Especially given that Songs of Innocence is supposed to be directly inspired by '70s era punk, a time when the gig poster was pretty much the visual representation of punk and rock'n'roll.