The Prodigy - Wild Frontier music video


Director/ producer: Mascha Halberstad
Animation: Elmer Kaan
Props and Sets: Sebastian Doermann, Lorenzo Adamson
Costume design: Marije van Ouwerkerk
Production company: Superfelix
Image Post Production: FLOW
Compositing: Florentijn Bos, Kenn Kalvik Hedin, Harish Kumar
Grading: Jef Grosfeld

Special thanks:
Marleen Slot, Fiona van Heemstra, Felix Pfeiffer, Alex Scholing

At 2015 Berlin Music Video Awards Wild Frontier won "Best Animation" award.

The official music video was posted on the band's YouTube page on 23 February 2015. The video, a stop-motion animation was directed by the Dutch filmmaker Mascha Halberstad and animator Elmer Kaan,features two hunters hunting animals. They later get turned into two animals themselves after a moose that arrives to save the animals puts them into a trance-like state. It also features the fox that was present in the video for the band's earlier single, Nasty.

Easily one of the best videos ever made to The Prodigy. A really gorgeous dutch analogue animation that suits the track so well. Mascha Halberstad told in Dutch Tv interview that Liam came from a soundcheck and turned on the tv and her movie called 'Munya In Mij' was on. Liam liked that and made a phone recording of it and sent it to the record company telling them find out who made this.

She told the assignment was to make a twisted children's animation. When they were animating the video she sent a minute every week to Liam to discuss and Liam brought in some ideas. Originally there was also a different ending but Liam wanted to change it.

At 2015 Berlin Music Video Awards Wild Frontier won "Best Animation" award.

This is not the first award for Art Director and Director of Photography Mascha Halberstad. She also won the 2012 International Animated Short Film award at Germany's Schlingel Film Festival for her short "Goodbye Mister de Vries", using no computer effects whatsoever.

 

 

See also

Charly

Charly

1991

The Prodigy's first official promo video was shot in the rave.
Fire

Fire

1992

Pretty cool half animated video, but picture quality is poor.
Out Of Space

Out Of Space

1992

Keith in the boiler suit gas mask. Ostriches, and some dancing.
Wind It Up

Wind It Up

1993

Shot in America at Venice Beach California.
One Love

One Love

1993

At the time high budget fully computer animated video.
Poison

Poison

1995

Very good and expensive video, Maxim sings, Leeroy dances, Liam plays the drums.
Firestarter

Firestarter

1996

Shot in old abandoned subway. Keith sings and Liam tries to break the train tracks.
Breathe

Breathe

1996

Lots of bugs, and a alligator. Shot in an abandoned apartment.
Smack My Bitch Up

Smack My Bitch Up

1997

Smack My Bitch Up-video has been banned on most TV channels. MTV Europe has showed it at night a couple of times.
Hotride

Hotride

2004

They made a video for Hotride but Liam didn't like it at all so it was binned and never released.
Girls

Girls

2004

First single/video from the Always Outnumbered album.
Spitfire

Spitfire

2005

Awesome live video with stunning effects. This really captures what Prodigy is about.
Omen

Omen

2009

Omen was actually the first official single from Invaders Must Die album.
Warriors Dance

Warriors Dance

2009

An animation resembling stop motion of a secretive fantasy dance party.
Nasty

Nasty

2015

First music video from The Day is My Enemy album.
Ibiza

Ibiza

2015

The Prodigy themselves and Jason Williamson on Sleaford Mods appear in the video for ‘Ibiza’.
Need Some1

Need Some1

2018

Directed by Filipino filmmaker Paco Raterta, the visual was shot entirely in the Philippines.
Timebomb Zone

Timebomb Zone

2018

Music video for "Timebomb Zone" by The Prodigy off the new album No Tourists.
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