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- THIS WILL DESTROY YOU - "BLACK DUNES"The video centers around a single female figure (nameless) who is meandering through the detoriated states of self and surroundings. The context can be framed as a dream within a dream of a young woman under possesive trance.Visions of multiple selves endlessly roaming around you, animals, and non linear timelines are a theme throughout.I shot this over few days which involved sneaking onto an abandoned and oddly enchanting 1950's farmhouse south of Austin, TX. Preparing the site involved using the pre existing material created from the houses decay, e.g. meticulously arranging glass on the floor, making wire nets out of dozens of hangers, dragging old christmas trees upstairs, collecting animal bones from the barn, and in the meantime not getting caught trespassing and looking like lunatics ourselves. The houses oddly arranged disarray was meant to capture something as subtle and unnatural as a person who is slipping into mental illness. During the apex of the song we once again pan into the woman's mind and see what perhaps are memories of family, the farm, and another life displayed as turbulent and undulating vibrations.The atmosphere of the house and the pale and diffused December light in Texas really did create an inspiring atmosphere for making ghostly videos.The effects going into the video are completely unique in that they incorporate a hybrid of digital editing techniques and analog video synthesis processes most heavily featured during the apex of the song. My goal ultimately was to abstract the format of which it was made; I kept imagining finding a fossilized alien video format and the effects you might see when you watched it.PURE X - "SURFACE" The party was steeped in decadence and the macabre, it was a human menagerie steeped in perverse and intoxicated desires. As guests arrived one by one in sheer like fashion the air grew heavy with the grand anticipation of what awaited them. Within the interim of twilight they were all dead, and carried away by the same whim that brought them there. The fog rises and Pure X performs to the audience (resting in peace) and reflects on the obscured memories of their last hours.
As I was making the video I couldnt help but think of how it seemed as if this was an exclusive party of elitist youth meeting in obscure locations to perform playful cult ceremonies that eventually ends in group suicide. I wanted to capture the malaise, and a comfortable melancholy that the song carries, and make it appear that Pure X simply stands witness to this. Perhaps facilitated a lavish party to pull them into a trap, or maybe they are just the house band to a cult's inaugural voyage via celestial object.
PURE X - "EASY" "Master of Puppets, I'm pulling your strings, Twisting your mind, smashing your dreams" -Metallica, Master of Puppets 3/10/1986
This song and the final product of the video began to arouse thoughts that surround the fine line between finding pleasure in control and the ways we seek to be controlled. There is a sense of being numb and restrained in the environments that we create and how we find purpose in our self imposed realities. The images of fishtanks, chains, leather gloves, doms, subs, etc. help illustrate this idea. Aesthetically, I wanted to recall the feeling of classic music videos we grew up with during the last days of Mtv having anything to do with music, but also not being overstated on nostalgia. The song itself has a polarizing emotions in the feeling of the music vs. the lyrical content, so it made sense to match that by keeping a sense of playfulness with underlying darkness.
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- In NYC tonight, let's do this
- In Detroit. #magicstick
- toura borealis http://t.co/BnbXmXvUApr 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @zakloyd uzu is tite future Zak
- Twitter as a preach mechanism. #oreallllyy?
- Dont really tweet that much, but i'm really feelin Taz right now. #Taz
- Best vibe of the festival i've had so far is at the @truepan adhoc party. Actually amazing sound, solid line up.
- Silent Diane at true panther/adhoc. 7:30 @ cheer up Charlies
- At fader fort, bout to watch my bros in pure x. Then playing the Adhoc/true panther party at 7:30
- Infinite luck, health and good fortune to my comrades in audible arts this week! #sxswtf
- Silent Diane at Barbarellas tonite midnight! Neon Indian, Soft Metals, Tense, Airbird, Boan, Slugbug!!
- This ain't Egypt, don't act like you know
- Most recent directorial for a music vid, This Will Destroy You - "Black Dunes" http://t.co/w6ga3eRjJan 26, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Debut for a music video I directed for This Will Destroy You up on Spin. Creeped out the office, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. http://t.co/pQlaWmpfJan 25, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Take me away in da sway
- Eating fish tacos in a park experiencing peaceful feelings. You cant ctrl this.
- @SimianGibbons I always wanted to make sculptural fruit installations at parties.
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