Jason Archer and Paul Beck are a team of American

music video director A music video director is the head of music video production. The director conceives of videos' artistic and dramatic aspects while instructing the musical act, technical crew, actors, models, and dancers. They may or may not be in collaboration ...

s, and

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s. They specialize in the animation

rotoscoping Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, animators projected photographed live-action movie images onto a glass panel and traced ov ...

technique which have been used on their work for the films ''

Waking Life ''Waking Life'' is a 2001 American experimental adult animated film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the ...

'' and ''

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''. Archer and Beck also directed music videos for several performers including

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Juanes file:Juanes ZMF 2015 jm49108.jpg, Juanes at the Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany file:Juanes ZMF 2015 jm49211.jpg, Juanes at the Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born 9 August 19 ...

and Molotov. The duo won a

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for

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at the

Latin Grammy Awards of 2003 The 4th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held in Miami at the American Airlines Arena on Wednesday, September 3, 2003. It was the first time the telecast was held outside of Los Angeles. Juanes was the night's biggest winner winning a record five ...

for " Frijolero".

Career

Archer and Beck directed an animated music video for "The Great Intoxication" by singer-songwriter

in 2002. In the same year they presented a piece of art for the opening of the Science 102 in

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, including "State of the Union", a parody of

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's state of the union address. The duo also submitted the video "Homeland Hoedown" to the British band

Radiohead Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass) ...

, which they included as the episode four of their website www.radioheadtv.com and later on the DVD ''

The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time ''The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time'' is a collection of 24 short films from the English rock band Radiohead. It was directed and edited by Chris Bran of the Vapour Brothers. It was released on DVD on 1 December 2004. The DVD release con ...

''. Archer and Beck directed the music video for the Black Eyes Peas' remixed version of "

La Paga "La Paga" is a song written and performed by Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes. It's the fifth of six radio singles from his second solo studio album, ''Un Día Normal''. "La Paga" can also be found on the compilation album ''2005 Año de Exitos ...

" by Colombian singer-songwriter

that featured

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and

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. Archer and Beck were awarded the

at the

for the music video " Frijolero" by Mexican band Molotov; the video also received the Video of the Year award at the

MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica 2003 The second annual MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica 2003 took place on October 23, 2003, in Miami at the Jackie Gleason Theater for the second time in a row. Diego Luna hosted the awards alone for the first time. He previously co-hosted the 2 ...

. The second video directed for Molotov, "Hit Me", was also nominated for a

. "Frijolero" and "Hit Me" ranked at number two on the list for Top 10 Film/Video Notables of 2003 by Rachel Koper of ''

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''. In 2005, Archer and Beck worked in the independent film ''

'', based on the novel by

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published in 1977. The film was the first adult-oriented animated film since 1981's '' Heavy Metal'', with different themes such as government surveillance, corporate malfeasance, and

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. "We were contacted by Tommy allotabecause we had worked as animators on ''Waking Life'' and done some music video work hat he had liked I think one of the primary concerns was the budget." said Archer. Archer and Beck hired 25 animators to finish in four months the 92 minutes of animation included in the film. They were commissioned to make a short film for

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's presentation at the

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in 2007. Archer and Beck used a combination of live action and the

rotoscope Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action. Originally, animators projected photographed live-action movie images onto a glass panel and traced o ...

animation on the documentary '' The Eyes of Me'', that chronicles the lives of four blind teenagers attending the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. They received an

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

nomination for Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction.

References

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