Viet Cong Share Unsettling "Continental Shelf" Video

Viet Cong have shared the video for the first single off their forthcoming self-titled debut album. The clip for “Continental Shelf”, directed by Yoonha Park, is full of unsettling vignettes. A hairy arm hovering above a candle, a woman whose face is tied into a plastic bag, a hand going into an angry dog’s mouth, and so on. Watch it below.

Park shot the video on 16mm film. According to a press release, it directly references “classic horror films, arthouse cinema and the work of painter Michaël Borremans”. Park said of the clip, “I wanted the video to feel like a reel of film that was purchased accidentally at a garage sale or found buried under someone’s front porch. It’s meant to be an incomplete picture—like screen tests from a lost movie.”

Viet Cong is out January 20 via Jagjaguwar (and Flemish Eye in Canada). 

Read our “Rising” interview with the band.

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