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Jonah YanoThe Heavy Loop
2025






~30 minute music video & animated titles for Jonah Yano’s ‘The Heavy Loop’

Jonah invited me to bring a long clip to the music studio so him and his band could improvise a song with it. I recorded them as they played, and assembled the footage into a long, two channel performance video.

We wanted to have title cards throughout that introduced the band members. After Moya designed these, we animated them with water, made ~200 stencils, and overhead-projected them on top of the performance video (also projected), and re-recorded the video frame by frame.







I also got to work with Jonah on the rest of the creative for his album, including his album cover and vinyl layout.
Creative direction by Nik Arthur and Jonah Yano
Photography by Raiden Louis
Additional Photography by Nik Arthur







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Nik Arthur (he/him) is a Canadian experimental animator and filmmaker, interacting with organic matter, objects, and physical materials.





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