Prinzhorn Dance School – Istanbul – Blue Mosque & Live

A Study of Prinzhorn Dance School – Director Steve Glashier

This highly stylized EPK for Prinzhorn Dance School combines their music videos with live performance filmed specifically for the EPK. Eschewing traditional interview techniques, they explain their writing process and the story behind their first album on DFA with a carefully scripted dialogue.
A Study of Prinzhorn Dance School was presented as part of the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany.

Prinzhorn Dance School – ‘Crackerjack Docker’ – Director Steve Glashier

Prinzhorn knew what they wanted to do, and they approached this in the same way that they write their music: they presented me with a series of very complex charts that don’t really make any sense to anyone else apart from them, so you had to grasp that concept as well as making a fucking music video. They are really involved, so it was like collaborating with two other directors really. We shot it in the studio where they recorded the album, which is next to Tobin’s Dad’s workshop- he’s an artist who works with metal- so there were loads of tools everywhere. We went through them, picking out tools we liked and thought would look good and work well. We pieced it all together, filmed everything fairly statically and shot on to 16mm- the only thing we’ve ever done on film. The shot of the guy tying the Monkey Fist knot sustains the middle eight, which was quite brave. We held off on cutting it up, and I think the payoff is better in the end because of it. In a way, this video goes on to inspire the Super U video because I realised watching people make things is so much more interesting than watching a band miming to their fucking single.