Pawel must have done over a hundred squats and apparently couldn’t walk for a few days, Olga munched her way through half a Krispy Kreme factory (she also happens to abhor doughnuts, so we felt pretty bad about that one), and Ed probably hates us for the 12 warm beers we gave him.” His punishment is to roll a boulder up a steep hill the boulder, however, always rolls back down the hill before he reaches the top, despite his best efforts.

He succeeded twice, each time only temporarily before the consequences caught up with him. “Asking our cast to torturously repeat the same moves was pretty intense. Sisyphus is a former king sentenced to an eternity of punishment within Tartarus for attempting to cheat death. As such, rather than loop the footage in Sisyphus, each clip is a separately filmed attempt to recreate the exact same move with a little more crazy each time. “We imagined the often upbeat and happy people inside GIFs as prisoners, forced to repeat the same sunny smile or hammy performance forever with a growing sense of madness. So for Sisyphus, we decided a video made from looping animated GIFs would be our modern translation. “ In Greek Mythology, King Sisyphus was doomed to lift the same boulder up and down a hill for eternity. Speaking of the video, director Kit Monteith (who made the video with Joseph & Joseph) explained: Sisyphus is taken from Toothless’ debut album, The Pace of the Passing, released through Island Records on 27 th January 2017. Launches Video For Sisyphus + Announces Debut UK Tour.Įd Nash AKA Toothless is pleased to launch the video for Sisyphus today, and details of a first UK tour for the new year.

Sisyphus cast