Video for Basic Instinct - The Acid

Mute have just released the debut album Liminal by The Acid. This video for the track Basic Instinct very beautifully captures the somnambulant mood of the music by slowing the footage so dramatically one is effectively taken through a series of memorably arresting stills. The subject and context feel rooted in traditions of Persian miniature painting particularly as some of the more impossible feats of aerobatic dance suggest the collapsed perspectives characteristic therein. It is curious that there seems to be a move toward minimal editing and the slowing of information in contrast to the Michael Bay school of brutal statistical density. Perhaps this is purely employed as a point of difference but perhaps also it arises from the same impetus: a general cultural deficit of attention is addressed just as well by disallowing change on the grounds that hummingbird attention will be reinforced by returning repeatedly to the unchanging. Whatever the wider causes and effects, this is a lovely thing, beautifully resolved.