Mike Aho’s Lonely Life

By Tara Kenny / January 20th, 2012 in Talks / Austin / 108 views

Musician, video director and artist Mike Aho has conjured up a ghost like creature, cryogenically frozen sometime in the 80s with the hope of being brought back to life by science, and now stuck in the vortex between imagination and reality. Thing is, this lost little animation man needs your $$$ to get him out of this unfulfilling half life.

The Lonely Life is a yet to be actualised video project which will accompany the release of Austin based rock/experimental band ((Sounder))’s latest record. The film, which is a collaboration between Aho, who fronts ((Sounder)), actor and musician Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and animation artists Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Jeremy Fish, Michael Sieben and the Okay Mountain Collective, will interpret the album’s soundtrack into a cohesive visual narrative.

Fascinated by an article he read about a group of over 200 people who had the atoms in their brains frozen in a bid to be brought back to life to experience the future, Aho was led to explore and reinterpret this phenomen0n creatively. The resulting project follows the imagined existence of a resurrected ghost being, short of a few brain atoms, who experiences the world in a permanent state of confusion, unable to separate reality from hallucination. Cue the playful, surrealist animations.

Most importantly, for only a $15 donation you can help save the ghost man from his perpetual wandering as well as be validated with a poster that reads ‘Official Certificate of Awesomeness.’ Sold.