Synopsis

A hand-drawn animated fable turns Woodpigeon's gentle love song into a strange, storybook world. Tree-like figures move through an abstract landscape, while a succession of highly stylized faces and placards introduces a playful, dreamlike visual language. The animation shifts between character studies, symbolic tableaux, and scenes of the plant-human figures interacting, giving the video a deliberately mythical atmosphere. Its whimsical imagery mirrors the song's tender but melancholy mood, though the Calgary Tower itself never appears.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was presented as a "metaphysical, mythic, musical" project, an apt description of its surreal animation and fairy-tale visual design.

• The central characters are tree people, with their branch-like limbs and elongated forms developed through a series of pre-production sketches.

• The artwork includes a collection of hand-drawn face signs, ranging from geometric masks to eccentric cartoon portraits. These designs add a playful, almost ritualistic quality to the otherwise sparse animation.

• The video's visual development was made public through a Behance project that included character designs and original pre-production drawings.

• The song appears as the closing track on Woodpigeon's 2010 album Die Stadt Muzikanten. It is a duet with Jamie Fooks, who co-wrote the lyrics with Mark Andrew Hamilton.

• Despite the title, the Calgary Tower is absent from the video. The landmark functions as a lyrical image rather than a literal setting.

• The video circulated online by December 2010, while the associated visual-development portfolio was published in June 2014.