hello my name is ART

This is a crazy video. It echoes the coolness of some of the early 80’s music videos that seem to be born from the video experimentation of video pioneered by the great Soho artists of the 80’s.  It’s vision way beyond huge walls of flashing lights, half naked women and tons of gyrating. “No One Does It Like You” is directed by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama. It contains sets and costumes by Dzama and unmistakably  has his childhood war, nightmare-ish, Darger spawned aesthetic. The video with its unnerving cloaked and armed factions gearing up to do battle by dancing and celebrating quickly disintegrates into a bloody combat scene in which no one survives.  Its really unsettling. I tried to make a connection with the visuals and the lyrics and all I came up with is the eeriness of the song matches up perfectly with the bizarre story. I’ll watch it again and again I’m sure, and either have meaning reveal itself or I’ll end up crazy hiding in basement with a baseball bat. It’s a winner.