The video was written and directed by Critcheloe and shot in his native Kansas City, conceptualized as “an Americanized Dante’s Inferno.” Come in. Go from the karaoke basement were a gigantic red-oozing phallic fortune cookie is being engulfed by a frightening woman to an absurd artistic revelation in a glossy bourgeois upper floor.
I always make a bunch of sketches before I shoot a video. I believe that drawing in general helps me stay thin and makes all of my dreams come true. When I don’t draw before I make a video things seem to go haywire. I think I have a draftswoman in my head and heart. She guides me through the storm.
See the sketches in the gallery.
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