Synopsis
In a stark concrete city, a girl looks to the moon for a way out of her monochrome surroundings. Her search leads to an imaginary counterpart, a tiny alter ego who travels into a vivid world filled with shifting colors and dreamlike forms. As the two figures move between the real and imagined realms, the video constantly changes its visual perspective, contrasting black and white with kaleidoscopic bursts of color. The result is a playful animated journey from urban confinement toward fantasy and inner escape.
Factoids & Trivia
- "Perspective" was completed in May 2010 and serves as the official music video for Tim and Puma Mimi's song of the same name.
- The video's art direction, illustrations, and animation were created by Monika Rohner.
- The production was supported financially by Migros Culture Percentage, a Swiss cultural funding program.
- Its visual language draws on cut-out animation, puppet-like characters, motion graphics, and kaleidoscopic imagery.
- The project was presented as a play between "here and there," using the contrast between a black-and-white city and a colorful world without shadows as its central visual idea.
- The video was featured in the 2012 PBS Off Book episode "The Evolution of Music Online."
- "Perspective" circulated widely in animation and film festival programs, including events in Rotterdam, Vienna, Geneva, Stuttgart, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Melbourne, and Leeds between 2010 and 2017.