{"id":314249,"date":"2026-02-28T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/314249\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:10:09","slug":"see-gorillazs-short-film-the-mountain-the-moon-cave-and-the-sad-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/314249\/","title":{"rendered":"See Gorillaz’s Short Film ‘The Mountain the Moon Cave and the Sad God’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn Gorillaz<\/a>\u2018s new short film, The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God, characters 2D, Russel, Noodle, and Murdoc are on a journey through an Indian landscape that looks a lot like The Jungle Book, complete with a googly-eyed python and a menacing tiger, as they queue up for the unveiling of a spectacular mountain view. The clip coincides with the arrival of the band\u2019s ninth album, The Mountain.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the title suggests, the clip fuses together three songs from the record: the Indian-influenced \u201cThe Mountain\u201d and indie-rock-cum-hip-hop (aka Gorillaz-like) \u201cThe Moon Cave,\u201d which open the album, and \u201cThe Sad God,\u201d which closes the LP. Musicians featured on the three tracks include Bobby Womack, Anoushka Shankar, and the late De La Soul MC Trugoy the Dove.<\/p>\n

\n\tGorillaz\u2019s visual artist, Jamie Hewlett, directed the clip, which took 18 months to make, with the studio the Line. It was made with hand-painted backgrounds and real materials in a nod to the 2D animation features of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a recent interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, both Hewlett and Damon Albarn, who holds the musical center of Gorillaz, said they didn\u2019t consider using AI when working together. \u201cFor me personally, I wouldn\u2019t use it in my work,\u201d Hewlett said. \u201cBut at the same time, AI, if you\u2019re using it in the art world, is a tool. Just like when Photoshop arrived on the scene. It\u2019s what do you do with it really that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s too soon to say whether we can fall in love with it,\u201d Albarn said. \u201cIt\u2019s like Mao, when he was asked about the French Revolution, he said, \u2018It\u2019s too soon to tell.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Gorillaz\u2018s new short film, The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God, characters 2D, Russel, Noodle,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,11151,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-314249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gorillaz","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}