The amazing video for Cults. “You Know What I Mean.” Directed by Isaiah Seret who also did the beautiful “Go Outside” video featuring footage from the People’s Temple.
3 months ago
I am in awe of the amazing and beautiful music video Cults have made for their song, “Go Outside.”
Director’s Statement
To tell the story of Cults’ hauntingly beautiful track, “Go Outside”, I was inspired to bring the band inside the world of Jim Jones’ famous religious cult, Peoples Temple, and the eventual tragedy in Jonestown. Fortunately, when exploring the feasibility of this video I became acquainted with Fielding M. McGehee III, an expert on Peoples Temple history and the primary researcher for the Jonestown Archive. It is thanks to him and his encouragement that I was able to take on this project and through his support gained access to over two and half hours of home videos showing Peoples Temple in Jonestown. For this music video we didn’t want to put a spin on the footage or the peoples lives—instead we wanted to re-tell and humanize their story. In order to achieve this we used a combination of stock footage, visual effects and other tricks to embed the band into the historical footage. This was achieved through my collaboration with my visual effects supervisor Bill Gillman and my cinematographer Matthew Lloyd. Lastly, I am moved to say when we completed the video we were able to preview it for some of the survivors of the Jonestown Massacre, who expressed their appreciation of our focus on the lives of the People’s Temple members as opposed to exploiting the graphic images of the final tragedy.
In History and Memory,
Isaiah
Cults recently sat down with me for Sirius XMU Sessions. It replays this week on Thursday at 4:PM (ET), Friday at 9:AM (ET) and Sunday at 12:PM (ET). Sirius XM Channel 35.
D’aww, no u CULTS! NO U!
Sorry you guys got all mixed up with a crazy kidnapping situation in this music video. Or was it all some kind of crazy roleplaying thing? I can dig that. Just make sure you have a “safe word.” Lololol j/k - no seriously though, “play responsibly.”
Cults, you have my favorite record right now. I put you on my blog. People will reblog it because they want to put cool things on their blogs and you guys are cool, Cults. You guys are COOL! You belong on cool blogs. If people don’t reblog you on other cool blogs then those people’s blogs won’t be as cool. This is called “Social Media.”
Thank you, Cults. You’re the best.
Your friend,
Jake Fogelnest
