Partizan’s Honor Price Directs Stop-Motion Epic for Of Monsters and Men

Of Monsters and Men have released a nine-minute stop-motion film directed by Partizan’s BAFTA-nominated Honor Price, created for the two-part album sequence ‘The Block and Mouse Parade’ from ‘All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade’ (released October 17th, 2025).

The film unfolds as two parallel narratives occupying the same space. Above ground, a solitary mouse-like figure runs endlessly in a cage before tumbling into a vast wilderness. What follows is a relentless climb up a mountainous rock face; a physical and emotional ascent marked by isolation and strain.

As the track transitions into Mouse Parade, the camera descends beneath the floorboards into a hidden underground city. Where the figure above is disconnected and alone, this subterranean community moves as one - tightly bound, resilient, and interdependent.

Honor was drawn to the emotional duality in the songs, “I was thrilled to create this two-part film for Of Monsters and Men - building two parallel worlds through stop motion, puppetry, and layered multiplane sets.”

“We were excited to make the bulk of the entire video by hand using traditional handcrafted animation methods - specifically stop-motion, puppetry, and multiplane. By layering real sets on glass and compositing rod puppets into them, we created a fully tactile, dimensional world that we think evokes the themes and emotion of the tracks.”

Rendered in tactile stop-motion, the film leans into texture, scale, and atmosphere. Humans appear strangely mouse-like, while the puppeted mice feel deeply human, subtly inverting perspective. The result is eerie, intimate and quietly devastating - a meditation on isolation, belonging and the fragile light we carry for one another.