Em Cooper's Hand Painted ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ Scores ‘Best Music Video’ Grammy
The 2024 Grammy Awards glammed the world last night, with honors going to music/songs across all categories of music, including some of the best of last year’s visually innovative and VFX-driven films, including Barbie and Oppenheimer, as well as the popular game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The award for Best Music Video went to I’m Only Sleeping, the stunning and beautiful animated short by Em Cooper, who painstakingly worked with oil paint, one frame at a time, to create her magical homage to the Fab Four.
A complete list of winners is available here.
Cooper spent months researching within The Beatles’ archives, designing, storyboarding, creating a rough animatic, painting, shooting, and editing the 3-minute music video, a laborious process that eventually involved 1,300 oil paintings, exploring the space between “dreaming and wakefulness,” created in celebration of the re-release of the band’s seminal 1966 album, “Revolver.”
Watch the music video, then check out our interview with Cooper by AWN’s Dan Sarto.