sia + dennis liu: you’ve changed.

Sia is one of those musicians who can pretty much do no wrong when it comes to videos. I loved her Claire Carre directed vid for “Soon We’ll Be Found”, and  though not quite as esoteric as Björk or as fearless as Fever Ray, she’s definitely inside a pack of artists who take the video medium as an opportunity to do quality work that augments and enhances their music instead of merely presenting it.

In her latest Australian single, “You’ve Changed”, Sia took a more light-hearted, pop culture referenced route. Directed by Dennis Liu (who also created the mega-popular Mac video for The Bird & The Bee’s “Again and Again”), this parody of Rock Band has a makeshift, arts and crafts feel that makes the extreme nerdy awkwardness of it’s teenage “players” particularly bang on. Inventive through, it’s totally witty, loaded with winks to gamers, and even manages to be a little heartwarming and optimistic at the end.

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sia + claire carre: soon we’ll be found.

Like a lot of people, I discovered Sia during the last six minutes of Six Feet Under’s finale episode – “Everyone’s Waiting”. I feel no shame in saying that I wept like a baby when I first saw this.  People talked about it for months, watched it repeatedly, cried again, but more than anything people talked about the song – “Breathe Me” – that pushed that amazing closing sequence over the top. It’s become almost ubiquitous now and I’ve seen/heard it all over the place, but luckily for us Sia isn’t a one trick pony.

Displaying an almost Björk-like fearlesness in her video new video for “Soon We’ll Be Found”, Sia and director Claire Carre create an entire universe with the magic capable of the human hand. From sign language to shadow puppetry to ultraviolet illusion, this video is a gorgeous, trippy day-glow romp.

Watch “Soon We’ll Be Found” in HQ here. If you’re impatient, then here’s the YouTube verison:

From the vid’s premier on mtvU, Sia said: “I’ve always been obsessed with the beauty of sign language. The movement and expression just appears, to ignorant-hearing-me as a dance… a beautiful, emotive dance. But the real beauty is that, hidden in these perfect shapes, is communication.”

Via Motionographer