Adam Frelin

Unauthorized Music Video

single-channel video
3-minutes
2008

I was commissioned by the Brooklyn band, Flying, to create a video for one of the songs on their new album. Initially I couldn't think of what to do. The night before I was going to turn down the offer, I had a dream about the US military using American models as suicide bombers in the Iraq war. Lifting their shirts would be the trigger for their explosion. To create the video I used early Girls Gone Wild footage. When I showed it to the band, they were so offended by it that they refused to use it, and banned me from ever showing it.