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"When Brooklyn-based band Bear Hands set out to create a video for its jangly song about unrequited love, \"High Society,\" it shook off the shackles of narrative and instead composed a fly's-eye video made up of images of the band.\nDrawing upon the influence of photorealist Chuck Close, guitarist Ted Feldman, along with co-director Andrei Bowden-Schwartz, created the vid using four computers and 10,000 images. \"We did 78 takes of that song, which did not make my band happy,\" Feldman says.\n\"This video was a monster,\" he says.  \"We had been assembling the video in parts on different computers, and we were only able to watch our first cut of the monster in full two days before I had to fly back north to play a show in Connecticut.\"\nThe song, \"High Society\" \u2014 from the band's full-length debut disc Burning Bush Supper Club\u2014  has a cinematic quality that could have easily lent itself to a more structured narrative. It tells the tale of a man named Frank, who is in love with a man who doesn't feel the same way (he's \"engaged to be alone\"). In fact, most of the songs on the disc lend themselves to narrative visualization \u2014 the video for \"Crime Pays,\" for example, takes a more direct route (with the crime and whatnot).\nStill, the band doesn't go the cinematic story song path in this case. \"We didn't like the idea of sort of arbitrarily fitting our songs into a narrative, or fitting us, the band, into a narrative, because that feels kind of phony,\" Feldman says. \nInstead, the band members fit themselves \u2014 literally \u2014 into a kind of kaleidoscoping imagery, making the song more about sound and atmosphere than the plight of Frank. The video starts in close, focusing on lead singer Dylan Rau's mouth here, a tattoo there, then begins splintering off into more and more squares featuring a symbol, guitar strings, etc. Those images become ever more plentiful, until they make up Rau's face once more.\n\"Every image in this video is taken from just us performing, so as complicated as it ends up being, it's a pretty simple concept,\" says Feldman."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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