The
System by Waterhouse artist Terry
Lynn was the first music video combining the efforts of The
Rickards Brothers and was shot on location
in Porus, Jamaica utilising HD video and Rickards' still-photography
techniques.
The
composition, texture and use of natural light in The System
is intentionally similar to a series of photographs taken
by Rickards in 2007 known as Friday Morning Market. The photographs
from this series documented a day in the life of a typical
slaughterhouse located at the back of a community market in
rural Jamaica.
In
The System, the struggling of doomed animals, the brutality
and indifference of the butchers and the slaughthouse itself
are presented as a series of visual metaphors that relate
to the lyrics in Lynn's song. To be precise, the violence
and nonchalance of the killers are direct references to the
police while the pigs are a clear reference to the victims
of police violence within a seemingly inescapable garrison
- the slaughterhouse).
Terry
Lynn, Album: Kingstonlogic 2.0 :
http://www.kingstonlogic.com
Phree Music/Last GangRecords/ http://www.phreemusic.com
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