Synopsis

The video intercuts Silverchair performing in stark, clinical surroundings with unsettling images of Daniel Johns confined to a wheelchair and moved through institutional spaces. A woman wakes in a grimy room before repeatedly washing her hands, while her reflection appears distorted and increasingly detached from reality. The imagery grows more disorienting as the song progresses, creating a visual portrait of obsession, physical confinement, and psychological distress that echoes the song's focus on anorexia and depression.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Ana" is Daniel Johns' personification of anorexia nervosa, the eating disorder he publicly discussed around the release of *Neon Ballroom*. The song became one of Silverchair's most direct treatments of his mental and physical health.

• Australian actress Sarah Aubrey plays the woman associated with the video's disturbing hand-washing sequence. Her presence gives the clip a narrative focus beyond the band's performance footage.

• The video's distorted mirror imagery turns an apparently ordinary act of cleanliness into something compulsive and unreliable, matching the song's theme of an obsession that presents itself as both necessary and destructive.

• "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" was released as the second single from *Neon Ballroom* in 1999 and helped bring wider attention to the possibility of anorexia affecting men as well as women.

• The video was nominated for Best Video at the 1999 ARIA Music Awards.