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The video, he says, is about “extracting creativity-if the creativity of any living creature could be seen, what would it look like?” So he’s arranging “extractions” from the band members’ bodies: hairs being plucked, nails clipped, tears shed. “I do have a scab we could pick at,” he offers, exhibiting the back of one hand. Today Moyes needs to photograph someone from Grizzly Bear taking a razor blade and excising a piece of his own skin.Įd Droste, one of the band’s singers, has a long aquiline nose and a sardonic gargle of a laugh, which is his initial response to this development. Now Kris Moyes, the owlish Australian director who’s shooting “A Simple Answer,” has brought them a sinister pile of props, including surgical scissors, electrodes, IV tubing, and a curved linoleum knife that becomes truly terrifying when you remove it from a home-improvement context and place it in a medical one. For 2009’s “ Two Weeks,” they sit like a row of ventriloquists’ dummies, sporting creepily docile grins as their heads distend and explode with light. In 2007’s “ Knife,” they’re seen sinking stoically into quicksand.
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Grizzly Bear’s music videos have this habit of depicting the band members as suffering, blank and deadpan, through conditions that do not appear comfortable. Photo: Andreas Laszlo Konrath/New York Magazine From left, Christopher Bear, Chris Taylor, Daniel Rossen, and Ed Droste.