Last week I saw Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog at Film Forum, which, if you haven't seen it, offers the kind of consummate art-cinema experience that comes from receiving paradigm-shifting ideas from your favorite philosophers via the mouthpiece of one of your favorite artists. It makes nonsense-sense in the way it did when I found out the directors of one of my all-time favorite music videos' new work was inspired by another one of my all-time favorite music videos.
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Tl;dr: saw inspiring art last week, now you should watch it too.Those directors are Mac Boucher and Gaya Larouche, who previously wowed us with Yukon Blonde's Fellini-meets-Bowie "Saturday Night" music video.
The video sees Yukon Blonde taking to the seas, the chapels, the streets, and even the stomping vineyard to what Boucher, fresh off of directing the photography for his sister's double-feature music video spectacular (*ahem* you may have heard of her, she goes by the name of Grimes), calls the "Hell's Angels/Joe Walsh 'Rocky Mountain Way; uber-masculine sound of the track."
"When hearing the song for the first time I had that image from 'Invisible Light' with the woodchopper seducing the woman in the white pants. So that sunkissed look and the silly zooms of El Guincho's Bombay stuck with me," Boucher explains. "I guess the themes were inspired from going to a very bro university and to make fun of it seemed a fitting opportunity. The images were CANADA and a little 'Al Pacino returning to Sicily' feel in The Godfather ([but a] little less golden)." Combined with a Satanic priest, a motorcycle, headbanging grape stompers ("professional dancers trained in all different areas, mostly jazz and contemporary," explains producer Ryan Tremblay), and a reveal that would make Jayne Mansfield blush, it's a thundering frolic into natures human, earthly, and divine. Makes sense that Tremblay calls the day on set "like a utopian paradise." Wherever "I Wanna Be Your Man" exists, we'd all do better to strive for it.
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