The System by Waterhouse artist Terry Lynn will be the first music video combining the efforts of The Rickards Brothers and is meant to serve as a hard introduction to the creative abilities of the team.
The System was shot on location in Porus, Jamaica utilizing HD video and Rickards' still-photography techniques.
The composition, texture and use of natural light in The System is intentionally similar to a series of photographs taken by Rickards in 2007 known as Friday Morning Market.
The photographs from this series documented a day in the life of a typical slaughterhouse located at the back of a community market in rural Jamaica.
In The System, the struggling of doomed animals, the brutality and indifference of the butchers and the slaughterhouse itself will be presented as a series of visual metaphors that relate to the lyrics in Lynn's song.
To be precise, the violence and nonchalance of the killers are direct references to the police while the pigs are a clear reference to the victims of police violence within a seemingly inescapable garrison - the slaughterhouse.
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Well I'm sorry for them if they think this is the way a slaughter must be done. No need for dogs terrorizing the animal. No need to drag the animal or make it jump from truck. No need for children to linger all round. When the time came for my family to kill a pig or even chickens on the farm everything was arranged, calm and clear. I get the artists' point but the analogy is stretched too far in this piece.
msrockin 1 year ago
wicked !!!
euphoria646 2 years ago
Awesome video
deepdarkblank 3 years ago