!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Dancing Is The Best Revenge

What this video is

Released in May 2017 as the second single from !!!'s seventh studio album 'Shake The Shudder' on Warp Records, this video arrives at a cultural moment of heightened mainstream visibility for drag and ballroom culture — preceding the breakout of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' into wide cultural awareness and the documentary wave around ball culture. Frontman Nic Offer explicitly framed the video's concept around drag and…

Why it matters

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) are foundational figures in the early-2000s dance-punk movement, and by 2017's 'Shake The Shudder', the band had fully transitioned into electronic-inflected dance music while retaining their improvisational, body-centric performance identity. This video documents that…

The director

Will Galperin is a New York-based filmmaker, art director, and creative director. He studied film writing, directing, and production at Hampshire College. He spent five years at TBWA\Media Arts Labs as an in-house editor and then art director before moving…