Synopsis
Two clowns move through a strange, nocturnal world in this surreal companion piece to Blithe Field's "In the Moonlight." Fancy the Clown and Dona the Clown appear in stylized makeup and costumes, shifting between playful gestures, deadpan poses and dreamlike encounters. The video favors mood and visual texture over a conventional narrative, matching the track's fragmented, nostalgic sound with imagery that feels mysterious, theatrical and faintly unsettling.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video features two performers identified as Fancy the Clown, played by Will Riddle, and Dona the Clown, played by Liridona Emini.
- The Vimeo upload credits Mike Mytnick with the video's image work.
- The clip premiered online on March 30, 2012, ahead of the release of *Warm Blood*, which arrived on April 12, 2012.
- "In the Moonlight" appears as the second track on *Warm Blood*, a 10-song album released through Poulpe Mort and Messy Life Records.
- The song's vocal material is built from a repeatedly sampled phrase taken from an older recording. As the track progresses, the phrase is cut into increasingly smaller fragments, eventually emphasizing individual sounds rather than a complete lyric.
- The video was presented as an official release and remains one of the more theatrical entries in the Blithe Field catalog, whose videos often use simple, unusual premises to complement the project's collage-based music.