Having announced that a new record, Blood Bitch, will be released in September — the follow up to 2015’s excellent Apocalypse, Girl — Norwegian artist and musician Jenny Hval has now revealed the video for first single Female Vampire.
Conceived by Hval with dancer Orfee Schuijt, musician Lasse Marhaug and photographer Jenny Berger Myhre, who directed the film, shooting on an iPhone, the film follows a vampiric coven, undertaking bonding rituals, literally sticking together with the bizarre potions of the beauty industry.
“What does eternity feel like? How do you ‘live’ when there is no death?” Jenny asks in a statement accompanying the video release. “Usually, the vampire is depicted as a lonesome, all-knowing and ancient creature combining violence, aggressive sexuality and deceitful youth. The pack behind the video for Female Vampire wanted to explore vampiric eternity in a different narrative: in a group of romancing friends.”
“The vampire friends move through their hometown of Oslo, partaking in public and private rituals of moving together. We also wanted to combine ideas from old vampire trash movies and modern trashy iPhone videos, resulting in an enigmatic world of time-lapse like slow motion where everything is always moving, or moving on. Not there, or not there yet.”
Alongside the video release, Hval has announced a tour, taking in North America before coming to the UK for dates in Glasgow, Manchester and London in October, then a string of Europe cities before heading back to America and Canada.
Blood Bitch is out 30 September on Sacred Bones.
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Text Charlotte Gush