A tunnel, cars passing and a person walking in the middle of the road. Anyone with a little video clipe will be agreed on the ‘Rabbit in Your Headlights’, the masterpiece directed by Jonathan Glazer for Unkle. Although, put to get similarities, the clip that most remembers ‘striptease’ is the ‘Bet’ of Tinashe (someone misundered could say that too much).
If we prefer to think well, it could be said that the video directed by Jordan Hemingway, current fka twig couple, is a mixture of both. On the one hand, there is the stage. The director takes a lot of dramatic and metaphorical of such a hostile and aggressive location for a pedestrian. The tunnel as a violent place and full of threats where the human figure, by contrast, becomes the representation of the most absolute vulnerability.
On the other hand, there is the dance. In tune with the lyrics of the song, the singer stages an estriptis that functions as an emotional nude. The more clothes he takes away, the more powerful he feels, as if he released a ballast that did not let her advance.
The clip plays very skilled with that idea: to run to trumpets, scared and being ignored from cars, literally float to, once the self -safety is achieved, being able to transform its reality. The threatening spotlights of the cars are now the dazzling photographers of photographers. The insecure and elusive step is now a advance for life stomping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz2njtty3ba
