The NSFW Forest Nymph That Lives Behind The School
August 21, 2014 | Marina Galperina
In one of the best narrative music videos we’ve seen in a few years, here’s Hot Sugar‘s melancholy “The Forest Nymph That Lives Behind The School.” Directed by Hot Sugar aka Nick Koenig himself, the video follows a young school kid through his oppressive daily tedium until he finally goes down that path in the forest behind his school. And then, an encounter!
Warning: Viewers offended by nudity will be offended by nudity. And that’s too bad. With many interpretations of the naked apparition and the many jarring psychological sexual firsts it conjures, you’d be really missing out.
“The social networks that have become indispensable to our methods of communication have a stubborn and indiscriminate response towards nudity,” Nick Koenig tells ANIMAL. “In their efforts to protect their users from obscenity they frequently end up censoring Art. The video portrays a repressed and conservative society as the result of these conservative social media policies.”
Ooh. This is better than the last new Nick Cave video -- the shadow-strolls-through-forest-moodily that Gaspar Noé's directed. Sorry, Noé. Heart you. From the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 15th album Push the Sky Away (yes, you can pre-order), featuring Ray Winstone, here is the "Jubilee Street" music video directed by John Hillcoat. Hillcoat…
And it sounded so hot. Filmmaker/mind-fucker Gaspar Noé has just directed a music video for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' much-anticipated, confusingly Ke$ha-like titled "We No Who U R" single off their upcoming "Push the Sky Away" album and it sounded so hot!!! Were you expecting seizing neon titles and DMT-hued Paz De La Huerta? Sorry you didn't…
Nick Cave's immersive performance art piece HEARD NY premiered at the Grand Central Metro station, filling the space with a gentle rustling sound. Each of the 30 uniquely-crafted horse-suits required two dancers from the Alvin Ailey Dance School to maneuver. The horses "graze" by shifting around and trotting in circles, then breaking into…
