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UPDATE 14/09: The Incubus manager, Steve Rennie, now responds to the accusations.
Gerrit van Dijk is a well-known figure in European animation.
His modernist Pas à Deux (with Monique Renault, 1988) won him the Golden Bear in Berlin Film Festival for Best short film.
His I move, so I am (1997) presents a hand which draws other hands, and finally the animator himself, in a movement that never stops. (A second Golden Bear was awarded to van Dijk in 1998).
Now, Gerrit van Dijk claims that the Incubus music video for their 2000 hit Drive and its animated sequence is directly based on I move, so I am. He states that no group member/manager asked for his permission. UPDATE 14/09 The Incubus manager, Steve Rennie, now responds to the accusations.
The Wikipedia entry has been edited by van Dijk to reflect this claim.
Yet, MTV.com mentions that the Incubus singer Brandon Boyd and drummer Jose Pasillas animated themselves the sequence, using only Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher's "Drawing Hands" lithograph as an inspiration.
Watch the two films side-by-side (first video), and he original Gerrit van Dijk film: I move, so I am (second video), and decide for yourselves:
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Zippy Frames has contacted the offiical twitter account of the Incubus band for any comment related to the above. There has not been any reply so far. If there is any reply, we'll post it here.
UPDATE 02/09: Eppoh Heermans (@Eppoh66) draw out attention to a statement made by Gerrit van Dijk himself in his Facebook account.
van Dijk has now been suspended from Twitter, and writes: "Your account (@gerritvandijk05) is currently suspended. Thanks: Brandon Boyd & INCUBUS."
He also calls for all tweeters to tweet Brandon Boyd (@mybrandonboyd) with the message "Please, give @ gerritvandijk05 his twitter acount back".
Regardless of the issue of Twitter policies and purported violation, the question of similarity between the two videos still lingers on.
Comments (8)
  written by Hermano, September 03, 2012
Plagiarism pur sang.
Brandon Boyd & INCUBUS are jurisprudentially very wrong. (To be continued.....)
written by fredi hartman, September 03, 2012
anybody who can contact Brandon Boyd must do that!
written by Hermano, September 04, 2012
Press offensive has started :
http://www.haarlemsdagblad.nl/regionaal/haarlemeo/article17690563.ece/Haarlemse-animatiefilmer-Van-Dijk-mag-niet-twitteren?lref=vptop
written by brittybam, January 20, 2013
Plagiarism is when you take the exact copy of another persons work without citing them. Obviously Incubus acknowledged that G's art was an inspiration but they drew the clips uniquely & of Brandon. Incubus are also art geniuses, get over yourself Gerrit. Incubus is amazing & your trying to use them to gain fame. Gerrit your art 'presentation' had nothing to do with what 'Drive' By Incubus is about. Seriously no one cares, you cant win anything against them.
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Thanks: Brandon Boyd & INCUBUS."