Corridor - Jump Cut

JUL 01 2024 · 12:00

Corridor - Jump Cut (2024) Director: Winston Hacking Era: Post-Pandemic Indie Revival (2022–2025) - A period of renewed experimental music video craft, marked by a return to handmade and collage-based aesthetics as a counter-response to algorithmically polished digital content; Montreal indie-rock scene at peak international visibility via Sub Pop. High-tier curatorial artifact representing the apex of Winston Hacking's collage-animation practice in a commercial music video context. The video is a rare instance where formal experimental film techniques, found footage recontextualization, AI distortion, cut-paper stop-motion, are deployed in service of a major-label single without compromising artistic integrity. Its Juno Award nomination and extensive press coverage confirm its reception as a landmark work. Essential for any archive documenting early 2020s experimental music video art, Canadian indie culture, or the intersection of technology-anxiety and visual art in the post-pandemic era. Context: Released in April 2024 as the lead-up single to Corridor's fourth album Mimi (Sub Pop / Bonsound), 'Jump Cut' arrives at a cultural moment defined by collective anxiety over algorithmic media consumption and shrinking attention spans. The video's formal conceit, hyper-fast collage editing mirroring the fragmentation of digital identity, directly engages with post-pandemic discourse around social media overload, disconnection, and the colonization of selfhood by technology. Corridor, a Montreal-based Francophone indie-rock band with an international profile built through Sub Pop, represent a convergence of Quebec's rich experimental music heritage and global post-punk's second revival wave. The use of AI-distorted archival footage as a deliberate aesthetic statement situates the video within the 2024 art-world conversation about AI's destabilizing effects on authenticity and memory. Director notes: Directed and designed by Winston Hacking; animation by Philippe Tardif. The video for 'Jump Cut' employs Hacking's signature methodology of cut-paper collage and recontextualized archival footage, here augmented with AI-enhanced distortion of archival material, a deliberate formal choice thematically aligned with the song's meditation on technology blurring personal identity. Released April 23, 2024, as the third single from Corridor's album Mimi (Sub Pop / Bonsound). Nominated for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2025. Described by Sub Pop as 'GIF-tastic.' Cited by Colossal and The Animation Blog as exemplary of Hacking's ongoing evolution of dynamic visual effects and hybrid animation. Produced in parallel with Corridor's album cycle recorded at Studio Gamma, Montreal, with co-producer Joojoo Ashworth.