Photography by Tasya and Michael Lozano
Visual by Kat Péli
If I have a special behavior, it is always to analyze all around me. I love getting to the bottom of things and questioning assumptions and I am looking for a deeper meaning in everything. This is also what I tried to do in the new video and song Bored in Jeans by Lazer Viking, which at first seems to be a sentimental homage to the 80s where clunky synthesizers and drum loops dominated and the video editing was poles apart than today. “There’s nothing more sonically cruel than songs that never really resolve, songs that rather rely on punishing you by escalating only a single phrase or two, over and over. Suicide’s Martin Rev is the master of that. I mean, just listen to Ghost Rider. You could say the actual duration of the song’s hook is a single second. And you have to listen to that one second about 150 times. Again and again and again. But still, once it’s over, you wish it wasn’t. You wish it would just go on forever.”
The walking video idea is of course not new either. But when I follow the path of the Prague based artist, I see someone who is always taking new turns, literally like a metamorphosis, always incorporating new genres and stlyes, and perhaps here the walking theme is also a synonym for his life’s journey.
“I have a pretty long bucket list of things I still want to do in my videos. It’s more a matter of having the right song come along to elevate those ideas to exactly where they should be. And Bored in Jeans felt like the perfect song for a walking video. I’m a giant fan of walking videos, whether we’re talking PJ Harvey’s Good Fortune, Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Philadelphia, the videos Paul Thomas Anderson did with Haim or the prologue of West Side Story, which, in my book, is one of the greatest moments ever captured on film. There’s really no reason to merely repeat such a tried and tested recipe, so we decided to rob the classic concept of its three biggest players: the environment, the wardrobe and the footwork. Once you take those away all that’s left is an anxiety trip of a time warp in which it’s impossible to move from one point to another because space and time suddenly become completely meaningless.”
Enjoy the video, shot by Marko Iglic and directed by Stepan Svoboda, below:
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