The Peach Kings mojo Thunder

Directors: KRIS MERC BENJY BROOKE Animation: ATABOY STUDIOS Designing with chalk, black cardboard, pencils and white crayons then animating in Photoshop, co-directors Kris Merc and Benjy Brooke craft an angular, shadow-filled world in this personal labor-of-love video for The Peach Kings track “Mojo Thunder.“ Kris Merc: “I wanted to explore self-destructive behaviors maybe triggered by an inability to escape the past. Cycles of abuse, pain, vice, lust, and ultimately destruction. Something candid was in order. So I turned to the written word at first, crafting a long, wild narrative that is the origin point for this wild visual. “A story about a man, his intertwining relationship with these other figures I imagined. Me and Benjy spent hours looking at career criminals. I'm intrigued by the duality of their lives and the complex morally grey areas that dominates their lifestyles. “The theme going into this was, sometimes there is a pleasure in vice, even if it hurts us, that sublime feeli