clipping. - Body & Blood [CENSORED VERSION of OFFICIAL VIDEO]

What this video is

Released June 11, 2014 — one day after clipping.'s debut album CLPPNG dropped on Sub Pop Records — 'Body & Blood' arrived at a pivotal moment when experimental hip-hop was asserting itself as a site of genuine avant-garde visual culture. The video's deployment of body horror, exploitation-cinema grammar, and performance-art staging of nudity and physical distress positioned clipping. firmly outside mainstream rap…

Why it matters

A landmark visual artifact of 2010s noise-rap and industrial hip-hop, 'Body & Blood' demonstrates how the genre's sonic extremism (abrasive samples, clipped dynamics, confrontational lyricism) could generate a fully coherent and equally extreme visual language. The split-screen macro-body…

The director

Patrick Kennelly is a Los Angeles-based director, producer, designer, and curator working across film, video, theater, and performance/visual arts. His practice is characterized by highly stylized, darkly surreal genre-infused works that explore identity and…