Music Video | Ganser
No Trend Records | Chicago, IL
Cast | Crew
JASON KRAYNEK – Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Gaffer, Colorist (archives)
ALICIA GAINES – Bass, Vocals
NADIA GAROFALO – Keys, Vocals
BRIAN CUNDIFF – Drums
CHARLIE LANDSMAN – Guitar, Hair MUA
VINCE MCALEY – Editor
Gear | Production
CAMERAS – RED Epic Dragon
LENSES – Canon CNE Primes
LIGHTS – Litepanels, Blind Spot Gear, Hive Lighting
RIG – Shape, Wooden Camera, Easyrig, Flowcine, SmallHD, Teradek
The Chicago postpunk four-piece Ganser has been releasing EPs full of dark, meditative, weirdly pretty goth-inflected postpunk; we posted a couple of their songs, “Pyrrhic Victory” and “Sunk,” last year. This spring, the band will release their debut album Odd Talk, and they’ve just shared a freaky and intense video for “PSY OPS,” its first single.
As a song, “PSY OPS” is a bit more frantic and fearsome than the music that I’ve heard from the band. It’s got that same sense of dark majesty, but its vocals sneer, and its guitar slash. The song has a sense of greater urgency — less early Cure, more early Siouxsie & The Banshees.
The band directed the video themselves. Nothing much happens in it; it just shows some guy making himself breakfast as the members of the band sit around his kitchen. But it ends up feeling like a horror movie anyway, thanks to the disconcerting close-ups on food and the way the members of the band stare unrelentingly at him. The tension in the music helps, too, of course. You keep thinking someone’s about to get stabbed. Check it out below.
via Stereogum
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Shot a few months after meeting and working with Nadia Garofalo on the Melter music video, and of the same style of ‘one day/one man crew’ kinda thing. Not really something I love doing as I feel I miss alot, but def something I used to do often. The band had the story already done and we just plugged in the visual pieces that we could all within the bathroom/kitchen in a few hours. Very run-and-gun with just a handheld rig and a few LED lights. The result was def a different style from the music videos I write/direct so it was a welcome addition to the upcoming (long long overdue) cinematography reel.
