Moses Sumney 'Cut Me' by Moses Sumney
Moses Sumney gives into his darkest, most satisfying impulses in the self-directed video for Cut Me.
Across a collection of surreal, otherworldly vignettes, Sumney runs riot in an abandoned hospital with two other patients- dancing on caskets, performing on stage and taking on the roles of the non-existent staff.
The glossy, theatrical art direction places the concept very much in a dream world of Sumney’s creation, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The performances are top-notch, adding a lively vibrance to the derelict location, and cleverly personifying the complex themes in the track.
"It is, amongst many things, a satirization of masochism and the medical industrial complex, and a chuckle in the face of Black Death," says Moses Sumney about his directorial debut. "I couldn’t have predicted it’d be released in our current climate. And yet..."
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Credits
Director | Moses Sumney |
Producer | Whitney Jackson |
Executive Producer | Justin Benoliel |
Production Manager | Meredith Kurey |
Director of Photography | Cristina Dunlap |
Art Director | Gunnar Deathridge |
Wardrobe | Phil Gomez |
Make-up | Jacque Piotrowski |
Editor | Wes Sanchez |
Colourist | Kaitlyn Battistelli |
VFX | Eric Epstein |
Dancer | Malachi Middleton |
Dancer | Emara Neymour-Jackson |
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