SERJ TANKIAN: 'Elect The Dead' Videos To Be Shown On Big Screen
- Oct. 8, 2007
Serj Tankian — the visionary frontman for multi-platinum rock band SYSTEM OF A DOWN — has asked a collection of video and film directors, painters, and digital artists to each create a video for one of the 12 tracks on his forthcoming solo debut album, "Elect the Dead", which will be released on Serjical Strike/Reprise Records on October 23, 2007.
"For me, the great pleasure of 'Elect the Dead' has been not only to make the record with the pure vision of what I feel artistically through my music and poetry, but also to multiply the art factor by bringing in other great artists, in this case directors, and putting forth their interpretations of my music and words," Tankian says. "This serves two functions: to create more art from the original source, the album, and to offer more than just a CD to people interacting with the music, thus giving us more points of connection with each other."
The directors involved in the project include a prestigious array of artists whom Tankian has befriended over the last decade. They include music video director Tony Petrossian (TAKING BACK SUNDAY, SLIPKNOT, AVENGED SEVENFOLD), who shot the video for "Empty Walls", the first single from "Elect The Dead", photographer/video director Greg Watermann (MUDVAYNE, LAMB OF GOD, HOWIE DAY), Oscar-nominated Puerto Rican playwright and screenwriter Jose Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), French film director Diran Noubar ("Armenia: A Country Under Blockade"), digital artist Roger Kupelian ("The Lord of the Rings"; "Flags of Our Fathers"), documentary director Sevag Vrej (SYSTEM OF A DOWN, FAIR TO MIDLAND), and Beirut-born filmmaker Gariné Torossian (SPARKLEHORSE), among others.
"I asked each of the directors for their visual interpretation of my work," Tankian explains. "They were asked not to write treatments and that they could make whatever they liked. The results have been overwhelmingly amazing!"
A complete list of videos and directors is below:
01. "Empty Walls" - Director: Tony Petrossian 02. "The Unthinking Majority" - Director: Tawd Dorrnfeld 03. "Money" - Director: Ara Soudjian 04. "Feed Us" - Director: Sevag Verj 05. "Saving Us" - Director: Kevin Estrada 06. "Sky is Over" - Director: José Rivera 07. "Baby" - Director: Diran Noubar 08. "Honking Antelope" - Director: Roger Kupelian 09. "Lie, Lie, Lie" - Director: Martha Colburn 10. "Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammo" - Director: Greg Watermann 11. "Beethoven's C***" - Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer 12. "Elect The Dead" - Director: Gariné Torossian
All 12 videos will be shown at the following locations on Monday, October 22 beginning at 8:00 p.m.:
Elect The Dead: The Short Films - Theater Listening Parties (visual Interpretations of the debut solo album from Serj Tankian)
Herricks Cinema 3324 Hillside Avenue New Hyde Park, NY
Parsippany Cinema 3165 RT 46 Parsippany, NJ
Embarcadero Center Cinema 1 Embarcadero Center Promenade Level San Francisco, CA
Ultrastar Theatres Mission Valley 7510 Hazard Center Drive San Diego, CA
Kendall Square Cinema One Kendall Sq Bldg. 1900 Cambridge, MA
Century Centre Cinema 2828 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL
Emagine Novi 44425 W. 12 Mile Road Novi, MI
Clearviews Anthony Wayne Cinema 109 W. Lancaster Avenue Wayne, PA
Metro Cinemas 911 N.E. 50th Street Seattle, WA
The River Oaks 2009 West Gray Houston, TX
Lagoon Cinema 1320 Lagoon Avenue Minneapolis, MN
Harkins Tempe Marketplace 2000 E. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, AZ
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COMMENT | Great videos posted by : Kyashan 10/8/2007 9:08:11 AM
I can't wait for the album.
COMMENT | posted by : SuperliminalChoruses 10/8/2007 9:46:25 AM
sounds like an overabundance of videos. wouldnt care for it too much.
COMMENT | Pfft posted by : sadistic77 10/8/2007 1:30:32 PM
Don't give a shit about SOAD either, and Serj sounds like a goat.
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Good example of how democrats switch gears whenever it's in their favor to do so. Some good reading on the subject (if you're interested) - two books by Richard Preston. The Cobra Event and The Hot Zone. Preston is renown for his research on biological weapons and viruses.
COMMENT | The biggest joke... posted by : IbanezJem777 10/28/2007 9:22:14 AM
Is thinking that there is any difference between republicans and democrats they both are mostly self serving twits and puppets for the rich. The real question should be why does the US think they can control who has nukes and who doesn't when the US is the only country to have actually used them. Not once but twice and on civilian targets in major Japanese cities. If you want to do some real reading check out Howard Zinns "A peoples history of the United States" or the Chomsky Reader.
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