If I was forced at gunpoint to list my favourite animators featured on DN throughout the past 5 years, there’s little doubt that Eran Hilleli would make the cut, but it seems that whilst we were all looking in one direction Eran’s made damn sure that he’d be include in any favourite music performance director lists we’ll be coming up with in the future with his 1981 on going video diary project.
Eran’s naturalistic filming style does what the best of those in this field (such as the Take-Away Shows) do; capture musicians creating a performance in the moment, completely free from artifice. Here are a couple of my favourites: