Those who attended Aaron Granat’s LakeFront Cinema event last March know the Madison-based video artist likes pushing boundaries. Whether in loopy rap videos or sobering video installations, there’s a cerebral quality behind Granat’s exploration of art and our complex relationships with it.
Well, Granat’s back at it again, this time in a music video for his own hip-hop project Executive Committee. Off forthcoming LP NEW TRAX, the video for “New Beat” chops together the tame (relatively speaking) portions of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo: 120 Days of Sodom for a troubling, detached experience. The phalluses and rear ends Granat selects are but a preview of Salo‘s take-no-prisoners candor, but Pasolini re-cut makes for a smirking combination underneath the track’s nimble raps. Check out the very, very NSFW video below.
NEW TRAX will release later this summer