José González Cares for a Creepy Worm Creature in Calexico's "Falling From the Sky" Video

Calexico have shared a new video for "Falling From the Sky", a cut from their new LP Edge of the Sun that features Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell. Bridwell doesn't appear in the video; rather, it stars José González as the caretaker for a loved one... who happens to be a giant, writhing, worm-like creature.

The "Falling From the Sky" video is the first of a two-part narrative. (The second part will be a video for a González song, coming soon.)

Director Mikel Cee Karlsson said of the video:

The idea[s] for this video have been lingering for a while, ever since I saw Albin Karlsson and Björn Renner's worm-like creation made for a show at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. In original form, the "worm" was strictly covered in black leather. But I wanted to make it more like a living thing, like an evolutionary side step, a creature that is stuck in its codependency and has rather few possibilities in this world but still has the capacity to dream of better things. 

 

I also had the idea that I wanted to make a two part video on the same story and tell it from two different perspectives.  

 

When I heard Calexico's "Falling from the Sky" I felt that I heard the perspective of the creature, or rather the perspective of anyone who find themselves in a similar mindset or situation.

 

So, this video is actually part I of II, or more precisely, perspective I of II of this relationship.

via Pitchfork