My Morning Jacket » Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2 (3:50)

Set deep in a verdant jungle on a dark night, "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2" stars a furry, timid creature with gigantic eyes. Mixtape Club drew from an array of inspirations such as the BBC's "Planet Earth", foliage plucked from the streets of New York City, and the work of Russian animator Yuri Norstein. The jungle world was built entirely from elements painted digitally. The finished product is a haunting, seemingly hand-painted, lonely story with a touch of fairy tale sweetness.

"Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2" been selected for official competition in the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival and published in Stash 49.

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Credits

Director Mixtape Club
Label ATO Records
Executive Producer Michael Feder
EP, ATO Records John Biondolillo
Producer Hana Shimizu
Editor Joe Suslak
Designers Erin Kilkenny, Emmett Dzieza, Arthur Hur, Michael Seiser, Tavet Gillson, Joe Posner
Animators Arthur Hur, Erin Kilkenny, Emmett Dzieza, Michael Seiser, Tavet Gillson, Andrew MacFarlane, Will Decker
3D Animation Emmett Dzieza
Storyboard Artist Tavet Gillson
PA Corey Ryan

Hi Internet. Mixtape Club here. We wanted to clear something up. We're not sure exactly how it got started, but a lot of people have been drawing connections between our MMJ video and Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are" feature. In the blogosphere echochamber, this has gone from "reminiscent of" to "directly inspired by" to "in a cross-promotional agreement with." We're huge fans of Spike's and Maurice Sendak's work, and during the pre-production phase of this video Jesse read Sendak's book (yes, the whole thing all by himself), but that's about the extent of the relationship between our video and Mr. Jonze's movie. We hope that clears things up for everybody.