Supergrass - Pumping on Your Stereo
Trailer
Synopsis
Directed by Hammer & Tongs (Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith) for this 1999 single, the video gives Supergrass towering 15-foot, Sesame Street-colored puppet bodies built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, with the real band members' heads poking out on top. Filmed against a black background with twelve puppeteers dressed head to toe in black, the giant puppet bodies dance, swap oversized instruments, twirl feather boas and don Moai-head props, turning the band into towering, gangly puppet versions of themselves.
Context & Trivia
Jim Henson's Creature Shop built the 15-foot puppet bodies, operated by twelve puppeteers dressed in black against a black background so only the puppets and the band members' real heads were visible on camera.
Puppeteers
12 puppeteers
Puppet design
Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Puppet companies
Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Puppet building
Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Direction
Garth Jennings
Cast
Supergrass
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