By Steven Gottlieb on August 24, 2012 @ 8:50am PDT |
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Decoding the imagery of this dizzying High On Fire video possibly requires one to be high on something or other, althouugh even I was able to make the connection between "Fertile Green" and the thatch of shrubbery that looms so large here. Otherwise, I'll leave it to director Phil Mucci:
Phil Mucci, director: [High On Fire frotman] Matt Pike was a fan of my Opeth video, so he gave me a lot of creative freedom to work within the broad outlines of their concept album. On top of that, Steve Seabury at eOne was very hands off, so I was really able to go crazy with it. Which I definitely did! I tried to tie Matt's concept of the Christ Twin to modern political concerns, namely the rise of a sort of militarized corporate "theocracy", that is in many ways the antithesis of Christianity.
If you dare to dig deeper (and hey, why not?), here's a Revolver interview with Pike that lays out Pike's time-traveling vision of Balteazeen The Christ Twin.
--> watch "Fertile Green"
High On Fire "Fertile Green" (eOne)
Phil Mucci, director/priducer | Doomsday, production co | Danielle Hinde, exec. producer | Steve Seabury, commissioner
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