Never look back, unless you're a zombie, like in this mash-up of Night Of The Living Dead and Run The Jewels, as premiered via the recent Adult Swim Film Festival.
Director John Hillcoat x actress Cate Blanchett x Massive Attack is a perfect formula in a music video that's essentially a study of the human head from the actual to the abstract.
Nickajack Cave holds a special place in Johnny Cash lore. It's where he went, in 1967, with a plan to die. Instead, he had a spiritual awakening, walking out with faith in a higher power and a resolve to get clean. Fittingly, Nickajack Cave is where director John Hillocoat begins and ends his video for the "found" Johnny Cash track "She Used To Love Me A Lot," off Out Among the Stars, a collection of previously unheard recordings by the music legend.
John Hillcoat, director: 'She Used to Love Me A Lot' contains all the hallmark brilliance of Cash. The honest simplicity and deep conviction of his delivery shines through. The lyrics seemed to speak to America as it is now, to the nation that loved him and to the great divide he fought so hard against. This divide has only grown exponentially since he died, so we wanted to show America under this stark light and as a homage to the very reason Cash always wore black: to the shameful increase of the disenfranchised and outsiders. At the same time, we wanted to reference the great man's own struggle and journey from the love of his life to the burnt out ruins of his infamous lake house home, personal photographs, the cave where he tried to take his life but then turned it all around, the place he last recorded in and his last photo before his passing." [source]
Of course things are seedy are seedy on Jubliee Street. This is Nick Cave, with John Hillcoat directing. These two masters keep things open to interprentation, as does actor Ray Winstone, but the basic story involves a man who's found transcendence with a prostitute. And, if the lyrics are to be believed, she's also a good bookkeeper. NSFW
