In this age of YouTube saturation, the power of the music video as marketing and branding tool has only grown greater, but breaking through the clutter of music clips takes increasing ingenuity. Program 1 of the Los Angeles Film Festival’s “Eclectic Mix” music-video showcase establishes early on that animation (from stop-motion with puppets and dolls to CGI) and artsy (if not always artful) black-and-white images continue to be the form’s dominant modes of expression, with nods to horror flicks (see... More >>>