Monday, January 12, 2009
Music news New video: Of Montreal's "An Eluardian Instance."
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Last week Of Montreal unveiled the video for "An Eluardian Instance" on Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily blog.
At first glance it seems like the video player is stalling as it tries to keep up with the visual stream, but take a closer look and you'll notice that the video is comprised of what appears to be hundreds of thousands of still images placed together, causing the herky jerky effect.
Of Montreal ~ An Eluardian Instance (2008) Dir: Jesse Ewles from jesse ewles on Vimeo.
We've seen this kind of thing before with No Age's "Boy Void" and Mika Miko's "Business Cats."
... and closer to home with the Coathangers' "Tanya Harding."
The visual effect is cool and very psychedelic, and if you stare at it long enough the stop motion nature of it all feels very natural. But as with everything else, Of Montreal's mastermind Kevin Barnes takes it one step beyond the realm of the rational with all sorts of added visual/mental stimuli, such as little crabs wandering through the frame, and all sorts of other Frankensteinian narratives and weirdo point-of-view shots that make you wonder what really is going on under the surface here.
Since the first time I listened to Skeletal lamping I have wondered about the mountian goats mentioned in the songs and if it bares any reference to the Mountian Goats' frontman John Darnell. This video doesn't answer anything in that department. In actuality the mountain goat that does make an appearance in the video only leaves more unanswered questions concering his symbolic significance and/or double entendre in this particular song. Make of it what you will ...
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