Steven Wilson People Who Eat Darkness

Stevens song, People Who Eat Darkness addresses the subject of terrorism and the uncomfortable thought that you could quite literally be living next door to a terrorist and never know until it was too late. Originally when we chatted about the concept, I thought I would tackle the subject headon and do something quite hard hitting. But whilst I was midway through writing a narrative in which my main protagonist was constructing a homemade explosive device, the Manchester arena bombing happened, and it stopped me in my tracks. The video was specifically for Stevens show and I realised the perception of doing something so literal could backfire badly if a real attack took place somewhere while he was on tour. I still wanted to stick with the theme, but like all of my videos I aim to take a theme and twist it into something a little less realistic and a bit more supernatural. So, terrorism turned into an alien invasion, something perhaps along the lines of The Faculty meets Rear Window. During my re