Product Details

• Actors: Josh Dibb, Kyrian Friedenberg, Bill Homan, Rosemary Howard, Raigan Irons
• Directors: Danny Perez
• Producers: Brian Betancourt, Chris Ronis, Gary Hustwit, JoJo Li
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Plexifilm
• DVD Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003SC9B16
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,034 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Animal Collective: Oddsac" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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A Visual Album By Animal Collective and Danny Perez

ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2010 and has screened to sold-out audiences in dozens of US cities. The film was co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, whose 2009 album "Merriweather Post Pavillion" was named album of the year by SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, 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 viewing experience.

ODDSAC represents a new synthesis of music and film, a "visual album" whose songs will not be released in any other form. It 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, Perez and Animal Collective have also collaborated on two music videos ("Who Could Win A Rabbit" and "Summertime Clothes"), and a major art installation piece Transverse Temporal Gyrus, which occupied the entire Guggenheim Museum in New York City. ODDSAC is the result of over four years of intense collaboration between Perez and the band.

DVD package includes the 55-minute film, with new songs and score by Animal Collective, 40-page art book in a slipcover case, high-definition transfer, 5.1 surround sound audio.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than trippy, August 28, 2010

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James L. (Virginia, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Animal Collective: Oddsac (DVD)

ODDSAC: A Visual Album by Animal Collective and Danny Perez brings up a lot of questions. What is a "visual album" anyway? Is it a series of music videos, a film with a cohesive narrative, or something else? Why won't the band release the soundtrack separately, not even for download? And what, if anything, were they trying to say with this movie? Clearly a lot of people are confused. Despite the film having been seen by thousands of people during the screening tours of March-August 2010, reactions so far have been confined to the "wow, it's pretty trippy" genre. Nobody seems to know what to say about this thing.

That's understandable. Even though it's only 54 minutes long, ODDSAC is a film that's impossible to get in one viewing. It's densely constructed, both visually and musically. It also operates in dream logic using a combination of mythological, elemental (as in the four elements) and abstract imagery. And Animal Collective music. So yeah, it's pretty trippy. But though it's not narrative in any traditional way, it does have a definite structure, a reason why one scene follows another and not some other way around.

This sequence of sound-filled images seems to function like one of those sharply-experienced dreams. It sticks in your head, but getting something out of it requires some effort on your part. The more you put the pieces together yourself, the more meaning it will have. Additionally, it is the only movie I know which successfully combines vampires and marshmallows.

The soundtrack contains some of Animal Collective's most achingly beautiful and thornily abstract music. I imagine that it would be great to listen to on its own. But the images and music are so closely tied, sometimes right down to the individual frame, that the more I watch it the more the idea of listening to the music by itself seems incomplete. No reason you shouldn't if you want to, just don't expect it to be like Merriweather Post Pavilion.

ODDSAC is a unique work of psychedelic art. It's worth multiple viewings, careful attention and a lot of thought - conscious and otherwise. I couldn't have asked for more.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oddsac, September 30, 2010

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Robert B. - See all my reviews

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Great film. Highly recommended to anybody that has ever been a fan of Animal Collective's work. Also recommended to any fan of contemporary music and art.

This is a little more than just a long music video. There is a minor plot and some consistent characters. Don't expect the plot to go anywhere major though. This film is more about the experience, feelings and emotions that the music and visuals can create together. I recommend watching this film at night or in a very dark room turned up way loud.

5.0 out of 5 stars ODDSAC, December 19, 2011

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Chuck S - See all my reviews

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Amazing. Unrelated shorts, non sequitur visuals with jarring musical interludes and awesome Animal Collective songs peppered in (Mr. Fingers, Tantrum Barb, What Happened, Screen, etc.). My only complaint is that it's only about an hour long, which I guess is a good thing since it left me wanting more, and it's a "visual album", not a movie.