Synopsis

Vatican Gun Club's "Shelby Tidsworth's Action" is a brief, collage-like music video built around a fragment from David Lynch's short film "What Did Jack Do?" Jack Cruz appears in an interrogation-style exchange, answering questions about a janitor named Shelby Tidsworth. The clip's odd, deadpan dialogue is set against Vatican Gun Club's abrasive electronic sound, creating an uneasy meeting of surreal cinema and experimental music. Rather than presenting a conventional narrative, the video uses a found-film excerpt as its central visual and dramatic device.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released in 2022 and has a listed running time of approximately 1 minute and 7 seconds.

• Its central footage comes from David Lynch's 2017 short film "What Did Jack Do?", specifically a fragment involving Jack Cruz answering questions about the janitor Shelby Tidsworth.

• The short's connection to "What Did Jack Do?" gives the music video its title and supplies the character reference that would otherwise be difficult to identify from the song alone.

• "Shelby Tidsworth's Action" appears on Vatican Gun Club's 2022 EP "Dedacited."

• Vatican Gun Club describes its work as "part of the deconstruction" and cites Throbbing Gristle as a key point of dedication. The project's stated influences also include Nurse With Wound, Bill Laswell, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith and John Zorn.

• The video is associated with Belgium, while Jack Cruz is the credited on-screen performer.