Feel @mitskileaks 's helpless disorientation fold in upon itself in this week’s overwhelming Feature Video, ‘Where's My Phone?’...
Tapping in director @n0elpaul (the very same brain behind last year’s Geese clip for ‘Taxes’), Mitski’s briefing was to create something “absurd and action-packed and I don't care how I look”. Noel explains “she also mentioned Shirley Jackson's novella We Have Always Lived in the Castle. So I read it (it's great) and borrowed its premise”.
Set in and around the grounds of a Victorian-era home, ‘Where's My Phone?’ brings to life a collection of intense, deranged characters smushed together with Noel’s jerky, high-movement cinematography. Mitski’s role as a paranoid woman trying to protect her sister gathers intensity as the song progresses, evolving a complex psychological palette as home intruders (whether menacing or friendly) cascade upon one another, building into total pandemonium.
Noel explains “the video isn't an adaptation of the Jackson story... Nor is it a narrative interpretation of the song. I guess it's a vehicle for expressing disorientation and helplessness in the face of the rapidly widening gyre and the feeling that every horrible thing is happening all too fast.”
This is one clip that forces you to clench all the muscles in your body at once as you witness the walls begin to cave in.
