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If you’ve been following my mercurial raving and ranting for a while, you might remember my utter shock when I found out that one of my favorite contemporary filmmakers, Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain), decided to direct the first single from the horrendously pretentious collaboration of Metallica & Lou Reed, the now ubiquitously mocked concept album, Lulu. Recently, something new has peeked my curiosity. The brilliant rock n’ roll fraternal duo, The Black Keys, decided to tap Harmony Korine, the rabid, cinematic weirdo to direct a video for their single “Gold on the Ceiling”. If you don’t remember Harmony, he was the 19-year old skater kid that wrote the script for Kids for Larry Clark, then moved on to write and direct the simultaneously peculiar and evocative Gummo, only to be praised by such iconoclastic indie filmmakers as Werner Herzog and Gus Van Sant as a shinning, fully formed, pseudo-nihilistic, new cinematic voice while at the same time being discarded by most mainstream audiences. Afterwards, he went further into his lo-fi cave of grandiloquent artiness to make such gems as Mister Lonely (about a Michael Jackson look-alike) and Trash Humpers (self-explanatory)… and now is making a film with Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens (which in itself is strange enough to make sense). So, without further ado, here is the video collaboration between Mr. Korine and the Black Keys (bizarre, but not as fun as watching some of Korine’s early interviews on Letterman):

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