Last year, Sirius Blvck released two must-hear records—one titled This Time I’ll Be of Use with his friends Oreo Jones and Sedcairn Archives as the pensive, somewhat dreamy outfit 81355, and the other called Cinephile as a solo artist aided by more immediate and not infrequently aggressive production from Bobby Tryll. While the two projects differ in their levels of intensity, the unveiling of a new visual for the Cinephile track “Out of My Body” adheres both releases through the distinct visual language of director Pace Rivers, who buried 81355 alive in the “Capstone” video last year before going on to film the baptismal visual for “Hard 2 Find.”
“Out of My Body” takes those subtly unsettling images a bit further, channeling Sirius’ lyrics rattling off various horror film titles from Poltergeist to Toxic Avenger with visual nods to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other rural-set thrillers (a brief shot of a full moon expands the scope of that horror as well). “Usually when working with directors I love someone with a concrete vision for the song, I show up, go to my marks, and let them tell their story,” Blvck shares. “Pace is different, though, because he thrives off of collaboration. He wants to take your ideas, mix them in with his, and bring them to life on a larger scale. He lives in the moment as a director.”
“The ‘Out of My Body’ video emerged from a visual language we both speak,” Rivers notes. “We wanted to put something together that felt cinematic and intentional. I put the tune in my headphones and started dreaming. I wanted to put him into these situations where he seemed way too calm for what was actually happening, as if we meet him in the climax of a film that he’s instigating, but also weirdly detached from, like any good antihero. Bobby Tryll’s beat is dark and brooding, so naturally we went for darker genres. The execution of the piece meant real fires, torches, bodies, chainsaws, a custom motorcycle, scared neighbors, and SB being his charismatic self. It also meant laughing at ourselves for being ridiculous a lot.”
Blvck adds, “Anytime a video starts with the whole gang lying in the street as someone steps over top the bodies, you know it’s gonna be good.”
Check out the video below.
