New video with Apes of the State!

“Toothache” by Apes of the State (2020)

With any of my videos, there is never a direct route to the concept, and that remains true with this one. I originally wanted to do a music video for this song because it provided a lot of good imagery to work with for visuals. I was thinking things like candy and bright lights. Outside of that, nothing was really coming to us organically.

Less than a month before I was rolling through Lancaster to film, I got the idea to do a video with 2 Aprils, kinda acting as a follow up to the last music video we did together in which April summoned an evil version of herself and tortured it with a Voodoo doll. This music video would be April having to live with the new evil version of herself. I've filmed a little bit with dual people before, such as in the aforementioned Apes video, and a video with Matt Pless.

A primary piece of reference I used was that Netflix show Living With Myself, in which Paul Rudd plays his character and his character's clone. We borrowed a lot of shot ideas from that show, and if you watch the last episode of that season, you will be able to see our exact points of reference.