Living Things - ＂Har Megiddo＂ [Music Video]

What this video is

Released November 2011 at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement — a moment of acute cultural anxiety around corporate power, technological alienation, and human obsolescence. The video's thematic core, drawn from futurist Ray Kurzweil's 'Singularity' philosophy, frames the machine-human boundary as violently erotic and inevitable. The band had contemporaneously performed for Occupy Los Angeles protesters at…

Why it matters

A landmark of post-punk art-video production: rare convergence of a politically engaged St. Louis punk band with one of the most celebrated auteur music video directors of the era. Demonstrates how the 2010–2012 period saw a final flourishing of high-concept, director-driven music videos, with…

The director

Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer born 1965 in Pescara, Italy; raised in Hamilton, Ontario. Studied painting and illustration then photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Known for a…