Synopsis
Geographer's "Blinders" is presented as a dark, dreamlike montage assembled from footage from Dario Argento's horror film "Phenomena." Images of Jennifer Connelly's character, eerie landscapes, insects, shadowy interiors, and moments of supernatural menace unfold in rapid, impressionistic succession. Rather than showing Geographer performing, the video builds a visual counterpart to the song's anxious atmosphere, using Argento's surreal horror imagery to suggest fear, disorientation, isolation, and the uneasy search for direction.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was published online on March 7, 2012, by music-video curator David Dean Burkhart, who edited the footage to accompany the track.
- The source material comes from Dario Argento's 1985 horror film "Phenomena," which stars a young Jennifer Connelly. In the United States, the film was released in an edited version under the title "Creepers."
- "Blinders" appears on Geographer's 2012 album "Myth" and runs for just over three minutes.
- The clip functions as a film collage rather than a conventional artist-led music video: Geographer does not appear on screen, and the video's identity comes entirely from its selection and arrangement of existing cinematic footage.
- Argento's film already combines supernatural horror with striking color, dream logic, and imagery involving insects, making it a particularly natural visual match for the song's ominous electronic mood.