he's about my age, has an awesome name, and has done so much cool shit it overwhelms me. i just discovered his short film Study After Cruel Intentions which i guess feels something like a skyscraper-sized dead dove looped around the recent Simian Mobile Disco track Cruel Intentions. the 'music video' for Cruel Intentions is made out of parts of the film and is kinda cool but has nothing really on the original work, which is an insanely powerful interpretation of a song i would call just 'ok' if this film didn't exist to expand it.

Saam brought the same kind of gravity to the playful tune Hustler by SMD- an intense sense of place and time, capital-S Sexuality, a queering of everything in the truest sense. Study After Cruel Intentions is extremely similar to Hustler, as both evoke a secret energy between women that is recognisable+real. in Hustler, it is colorful / youthful / jokey, but it is also ominous. in Study After Cruel Intentions, it has grown up / grey / into horror.

dude has also made a bunch of videos for Klaxons and one for Janet Jackson and even does commercials. i think he has also won some awards and stuff. however he does not have a wikipedia page.

watch Study After Cruel Intentions [enable fullscreen]

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