A Ray Tintori-directed video for the Boy Crisis single “Dressed to Digress” has surfaced on YouTube, and features the dance-rock hipster absurdists bopping around with some ’80s-tastic babes, dancing while skydiving, and combining the walk-next-to-slowly-moving-vehicle video trope with the dry-hump-on-slowly-moving-vehicle trope.
The up and coming video auteur has helmed videos for MGMT (including their most recent clip for “Kids,” featuring singer Joanna Newsom, a baby, and a bunch of scary monster puppets), Chairlift, and The Killers. Boy Crisis features Victor Vazquez who is also one half of rap duo Das Racist, who made a splash this summer with the novelty fast-food track “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”
Tintori has been taken under the wing of former video director and indie-film god Spike Jonze, who is producing the adaptation of the Sharon Jones novel “Light Boxes” for the up-and-coming filmmaker. Tintori was also named one of Paper Mag’s most beautiful 2009. We’re keeping an eye on his work, obviously.
Earlier this summer, The Village Voice id’d Tintori, Boy Crisis and MGMT as a part of the “Wesleyan Mafia” (full disclosure, this writer went there and graduated the same year as MGMT) of Brooklyn indie bands and filmmakers finding success in the mainstream (the piece also included Amazing Baby and Das Racist). Tintori is a part of the filmmaking collective Court 13, which is based in New Orleans and also features filmmaker Benh Zeitlin, who received the Wolphin award at SXSW 08 for his short film “Glory At Sea.” Fun Fact: “Sin Nombre” director Cary Fukunaga shot the underwater footage in the post-flood rescue scenes of “Glory at Sea.” A mafia indeed.
I haven't seen moves like that since Kwalsh in Dancypants '03