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Nothing's Going To Happen

1981 4m Music video
  • Alternative
  • Flying Nun
  • Animation

From the EP Three Songs EP (1981)

Chris Knox mines his immediate, 1981-era surroundings for this elaborate stop-motion clip. Record players go crazy, sleeping bags swallow people, and hardly anyone on screen seems to have a face. On the telly are Springboks and protests, plus the Ready to Roll top 20 countdown. And all this unravels a full two decades before editing programme Final Cut Pro made homespun hip again, and directors like Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep) started popularising the craft aesthetic. The song was featured on the first Tall Dwarfs EP, Three Songs.