Just Released! GAY BEAST - Smithereens

Yowie kazoweeee!! CINEPLOSION has just released a brand new video for Minneapolis-based, GAY BEAST!

Yes sir, in anticipation for the new album, “To Smithereens,” to be released March 2011 on Skin Graft Records, our team of technicians compiled videotape of frontman, Daniel Luedtke, during a visit to the Great White North this past November. The footage was taken at the artist/musician’s loft and apartment in Southeast Minneapolis, consisting of an attic printshop-turned-movieset and various domestic nooks around the living space. In advance payment for the video, we graciously and eagerly accepted a collection of Luedtke’s topnotch DANIMAL GRAFFFIX prints, distinctive imagery mostly chronicling highlights of the Minneapolis DIY music scene from the past half decade.

Once back in Hot Springs, local heartthrob and blue collar Arkansan, Justin Castleberry (drummer for Man Against Fire, Mother Hug, The Holly Shakes and others), was summoned for a studio shoot. Hardened by a lifetime of lumber cutting and window installation, Mr. Castleberry proved the perfect subject for our roboerotic fantasy.

Within the video, a somber yet lustfully determined Luedtke is portrayed as the voyeur of thoughts, meticulously devouring each carnal mindwave like a rich kid’s rib dinner. The large, imposing male figure is lifelessly crushing in posture, a Pure Body pulsating with strength and cool primal vigor. It is not the person or soul that beguile the viewer, but the raw form, the seductive structure, itself.

Luedtke’s wade through malcontent, tenacious domesticity is finally idealized at the climax of the video, as budding tension spills from the hands of the masculine Beast.


(Technical Note: Upgrade your view setting to 480p, tab in lower right corner... compression is delicate on this one...)

Risque, eh? Naw, just another day in the CINE LAB...

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