The Body‘s brutally wicked Christs, Redeemers LP, came out this week on Thrill Jockey, and it is already one of our favorite releases of 2013, so we are always excited to see one of it’s infernal cuts receiving a visual treatment! Choosing to sublimate the extreme gothic terror of “To Attempt Openness“, the video adopts a very intriguing strategy with a literal re-presenting of Alexander Barton‘s A Bleeding Picture, filmed by Alison Nguyen and Brett Harding. Shot in a starkly contrasted black and white, the video begins with a thick splash of blood-like liquid into a glass container, and while we can’t tell what it’s pouring from, we see that a benign tube seems to lead away from the container and upward. Soon the dark liquid is pumped up thru the tubing, and with a dynamic shift in the music our perspective turns to an imposing, almost anthropomorphic looking rectangle canvas, supported on two metal stands. With this longer view, we can now see that a tall glass jar has been filled with a black inky substance, and it is being pumped to the back of the canvas by a single tube that finally bifurcates, to create two slow dripping, blood-like strands down it’s front. Nguyen and Harding do a very interesting job in depicting this mostly static set-up by using a variety of straightforward and abstracted shots to build drama and tension into their depiction of A Bleeding Picture. The Body kicks off their US tour tomorrow night in Portland, so don’t miss the dates below.
The Body US Tour 2013:
Thu Oct 17 Portland, OR – The Know w/ Braveyoung, The New Trust
Fri Oct 18 Olympia, WA – The Northern
Sat Oct 19 Seattle, WA – The Highline
Mon Oct 21 Billings, MT – The Railyard
Wed Oct 23 Minneapolis, MN – Hexagon w/ False
Thu Oct 24 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle w/ Oozing Wound
Fri Oct 25 Milwaukee, WI – Riverwest Free Space
Sat Oct 26 Columbus, OH – The Summit
Sun Oct 27 Pittsburgh, PA – The Shop
Tue Oct 29 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie w/ Pissgrave, Krieg, Drums Like Machine Guns
Wed Oct 30 Providence, RI – Machines With Magnets
Thu Oct 31 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
Sun Nov 3 New Orleans, LA – The Mushroom
Mon Nov 4 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
Tue Nov 5 Little Rock, AR – Whitewater Tavern
Sun Nov 10 Phoenix, AZ – Wall St.
Mon Nov 11 Los Angeles, CA – Vacation Vinyl
Tue Nov 12 San Diego, CA – The Soda Bar w/ Author and Punisher, Diamond Lakes
Wed Nov 13 Santa Monica, CA – Almost Heaven
Sat Nov 23 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater w/ Neurosis, Tragedy, Atriarch
