Credit: Jason Simons
Words: Sam Geary
Ezra Furman, the American indie psychster, debuts his new track, ‘Driving Down To L.A.’, along with an accompanying video directed by Joseph Brett.
The video was filmed in Strasburg, Virginia on August 13, the day after the fatal shooting during the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally.
Ezra dedicates the video to Heather Heyer, "killed the day before we started filming."
“This is a song of paranoia, escape and ecstatic ego-death. We decided to make a video about me and my angel companion escaping from modern-day Nazis.
"We had planned to shoot there long before we knew there was a far-right rally scheduled to take place in Charlottesville. So we had the strange experience of making a music video about fleeing white supremacists in Virginia at the moment that the whole country was talking about them, and as the president refused to unequivocally condemn white supremacy.
It is terrible to watch America’s white supremacist roots flourish like this again, not to mention the accompanying misogyny, queerphobia and anti-Semitism. I intend this song, video and my entire career as a protest against those attitudes.
This video is about how fear turns to violence. I hope it goes without saying that I don’t advocate shooting a gun into a car full of people, whether they are enraged white supremacists or not. The video is a fantasy and a nightmare. I think it matches the cultural nightmare we are now living through, one from which I pray we can soon wake up.”
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