The New Pornographers Go to Cuba With "Champions of Red Wine" Video

The New Pornographers have shared a visual for their Brill Bruisers single “Champions of Red Wine”. Directorial team Cudmore + Leblanc filmed the entire video – which concerns a self-proclaimed “Prehistoric Man” who goes through an existential crisis in paradise – on location in Cuba. Check out the video below.

Scott Cudmore shared his interpretation of the video and its aloof main character:

Obviously there’s a debt to the Paris, Texas locale of peep shows here and that was sort of the jumping off point for the video. I had this idea of a rambling, drunk loner in a foreign environment – somebody who can’t really connect to anything except for on a very superficial level. All the interactions he has are forced, more like transactions than anything. It’s a portrait of this guy, a few hours, a couple of days, in his life as he flails wildly around – his only means of communication being physical. The video is a fragment of this character. We only know him in the moment, not where he comes from or where he is going.

Read our Situation Critical interview with the New Pornographers.

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