You seem to like it when I do Found: Videos posts, or at the very least we have great discussions about them. Above is The Klaxons “Twin Flames” from Trim Editing – is it sexy, or disturbing? (Found on SFist.) Below is the trailer for “fuck you Bittorrent pirates” director Alex Braun’s next big parody, Superman XXX. You’ll remember he did the Batman XXX parody everyone loved enough to steal. At the bitty bottom is the way I prefer to remember Leslie Nielsen.
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The Klaxons video is only slightly disturbing. There is an element of the grotesque in seeing bodies joined as they were, with a certain revulsion being felt at the ‘unnaturalness’ of it. Reminded me of the movie The Human Centipede (First Sequence).
But when it moved to the nude scenes, and the more overt sexual activity, I found the concept to make more sense. Fundamentally, it’s about connection. Although the lyrics suggest the connection, through love, between two people, the video extends the theme, making it a kind of ‘six degrees’ commentary.
I’m not sure how to marry these two concepts – ‘the grotesque’ and ‘connection with others’. Is the viewer meant to conclude that our connections with others leads to a grotesque distortion of the self, or that what we may perceive as grotesque is in fact not?
I could write so much more on this, but shall leave it here, lest this become a mini essay.
The music video is certainly something. Mostly I wondered about sensation–what does it feel like when you have a torso where your leg should be, or you’re connected in whatever way to five other people, do you feel every sensation across every body?
And the bit where they drop the weird gel into each others’ mouths is certainly odd.
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