Johnny Murdoc

Butt Magazine just posted a video by Richert Schnoor, a video artist/dancer, called “Cut Me Open.” Schnoor submitted the video when Butt put out an open call for submissions for their “BUTT IN ASS” exhibition that ran earlier this month.

I can’t say that I care for the music, but the video itself surpasses anything that I don’t like about it. My partner’s been cutting my hair for years, now, and it’s one of those activities that is both entirely mundane and extremely intimate, so this video rang very true for me.

I hope you enjoy it:

It was sort of a happy accident. I’d planned to film the head shaving part, but the rest of it, the beginning, was an accident because our camera man (you see him in the mirror) forgot to turn off the camera. So what actually happened is we shaved my head and then all went up to fuck upstairs. Since it’s all reversed in the video, what you see at the beginning is us taking breaks from the fucking, and it works backwards from there. -Robert Schnoor

Schnoor has more videos on his website. I’m in a rush, because we’re leaving for Chicago in an hour, but I can’t wait to check out more of his work when we get back.

Edit: The video is no longer embeddable (way to make your work easier to see), but if you click on the image above, you can see it on Vimeo.