Credit: Nuala Swan
Words: Sam Geary
Glaswegian electronic post-punks The Ninth Wave unveil the video to their current single ‘I’m Only Going To Hurt You’.
The Bryan M Ferguson-directed video for the track - from their forthcoming EP ‘Happy Days!’, out on July 31 - is set in a claustrophobic industrial unit, with only a freestanding light fixture and an old tube TV displaying static, a sole figure moves around the room, at turns tormented then tranquil, the video peers beneath her skin to reveal a very human vulnerability.
“I wanted the video to explore both mania and introversion through a voyeuristic lens," explains Ferguson. "Taking influence from the French New Wave and putting that pop art vibe inside a more industrial concrete setting. The woman and the room are both an allegory of a manic heart inside a chest - the textures of the walls are almost bone-like, the woman is draped in red inside a space that grows tighter and more claustrophobic.
"I shot and cut the video with my wife (Vari Ferguson) in the middle of lockdown and it felt important to set the entire video in a windowless room with nothing but two essential pieces of furniture - a lamp and a television. The television transmits nothing but static - which at that time during the inception of the lockdown - the media often felt just as scrambled.
"I wanted to explore isolation not just because of how we were being forced to live during the current climate but also because it fused with the lyrics of the track - that personal alienation of heartache and how difficult intimate relationships are once damaged.”
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