Switchblade Moon

The plot

Switchblade Moon is a music video for the title track to an album that I wrote, arranged, performed and produced. In developing the music and the video, I thought about how contemporary art forms are referential, and how performers cultivate inner archives of sounds, movements, and styles to forge alter-egos for the stage. In the video, the alter ego I assume is myself as a younger person -- restless, searching for meaning in a world of late twentieth-century wrecks, literal and figurative: identities and gender roles I refuse to claim, industries I won’t inherit. As someone who is adverse to performing gender at all, the sensation of feeling socially bound to a feminine self feels like a kind of horror. These feelings manifest in the suburban landscapes and horror film tropes that are used throughout the video.

• Age Rating Teen(13+ years old)
• Running time 00:05:29 mins



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