Watch This: David Lynch Video for Moby's 'Shot In The Back Of The Head'
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Fandom, Trailers and Clips
When it comes to interesting pairings, it would be hard to top the combination of Meditation proponent and surrealist filmmaker David Lynch with techno artist Moby. The two have worked together in the past on benefit concerts and the occasional segment for the bizarrely captivating Lynch TV, but the latest effort from these two eccentrics is an animated video for Moby's new single, Shot in the Back of the Head. It may only be a simple black and white animation, but it is everything you would expect from a man who makes freaked out weather reports and drags a cow down the street as a marketing ploy.
Maybe it's not the most revolutionary video you have ever seen, but there's just something about the animation that suddenly adds just a little something to the song -- and isn't that what a good video is supposed to do in the first place? I really have to hand it to them, because I'm not necessarily Moby's biggest fan. I liked Play as much as the next girl, but that didn't mean I wanted to hear those tunes played into the ground by every commercial in prime time. Like I said, I'm a tough audience, and after watching the video even I may have to give the little vegan one more chance.
The one thing I do know is that I think I prefer Lynch the music video director over Lynch the commercial director, how about you?
Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby on Vimeo.
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4-18-2009 @ 6:41PM
Paul said...
holy crap that reminded me so much of 12 oz. Mouse, the greatest TV show that ever was and ever will be
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4-18-2009 @ 7:32PM
David Fendley said...
Brilliant. Utterly brilliant.
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4-19-2009 @ 11:13AM
paul said...
Have you ever made the throw away comment, "I don't like modern art so much"? Me too. I guess the reason we say something like this, is because modern art requires us to examine ourselves as much as the art in trying to determine what the art and artist is trying to say. Despite my reservations about modern art (ack) it still retains the power to move and to imbue me and us, the viewer with it's creative power. Speaking for myself, I can go to a museum and view art that has little connection with "realist" art and still come out buzzing with a creative and artistic high. This piece too, art and music combined, if allowed, has an ability to accomplish this.
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4-19-2009 @ 11:47AM
trickster_brat said...
I agree with your point about tracks from Moby's "Play" in a slew of commercials. Same thing happened with E.S. Posthumus' "Unearthed" in movie trailers, but I'm somehow still not tired of either.
Good Moby track, although the Lynch-directed music video isn't as striking as my preconception.
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4-19-2009 @ 6:51PM
Ira said...
That was disappointing.
Very little effort.
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