Red Rot: Dysmorphia ( Official Music Video)

Video by Paperclip Productions Directed by Leonardo Candidi With Satya Schulberg Dysmorphia is a song about losing touch with reality and ones appearance: it felt natural to make a video of a man trapped into his own mind. Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a condition that brings an individual to experience episodes where self image is regularly altered because of trauma. The character in the video is getting ready to leave a motel room, the whole ninety seconds of the songs is pretty much a PTSD flashback of what happened the night before, a complete splitting frenzy that eventually implodes once in front of the mirror. When I started talking with director Leonardo Candidi and actor Satya Schulberg about the project we started with Apocalypse Now and the Martin Sheen breakdown scene. The symbolism of covering one s eyes with one s hands is pictured as an attempt to hide from reality and masks ones appearance. This is both a child like motion and an ancestral symbol of communicati