From the album Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair
Directed by Cora Foxx
Camera by Steven Levine
Performance by Meaghan Lenick
Director's Statement:
In the video for 'Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair' for Grooms, my intention was to tell a story with objects, where the viewers imagination would piece together a narrative through the emergence of various objects from a thick pink liquid. It is a melodrama told through abstraction, filtered through the viewers own sense of meaning, symbolism, values, and biases.
As the objects emerge the surface of the liquid is disturbed creating vaginal forms. From birth, women are subjected to many projections of meaning by society and by the nature of their own biology. Knowing that all people, and so indirectly all things, have been birthed through the female womb carries with it immense psychological weight. There are some allusions to puberty, when women undergo an immense shift in their physical bodies, and perspective as they become sexual beings and in turn become sexualized by the world around them.
The video invites viewers to participate in the act of projecting meaning and in turn to observe themselves in the act of projection. The pink fluid is amniotic, feminine, beautiful, sensual, and cloying; a place of creation, or suffocation. Something to be enjoyed, or escaped.
Brooklyn experimental rock group Grooms put out their new album, Comb The Feelings Through Your Hair, earlier this year, and they’ve just shared a video for the title track. Directed by Cora Foxx, it features a bubblegum pink vat of water where random items are thrown into and pulled out of the goo. It’s a mesmerizing visual that’s easy to get lost in and, just when it feels like it centers on a girl in the muck, she’s quickly abstracted and submerged as well. -- Stereogum
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