The brilliant new video for the Serj Tankian song “Empty Walls,” from his upcoming album Elect the Dead, depicts children in a playspace pretending to be soldiers. During the clip, they crawl like troops navigating a minefield, shoot each other with silly string and fire toy guns that spray soap bubbles and bazookas that launch balloons.
There are scenes of: green-tinted images from night goggles; a little girl knocking over a giant teddy bear (which immediately brings to mind news footage of Iraqi citizens pulling down a statue of Saddam Hussein); and, most disturbing of all, footage of a wind-up toy airplane crashing in slow motion into two tall block towers.
Watch the video below, then check out Tankian’s comments to Headbangers Ball Blog. Then, leave us comments in the box below:
Serj Tankian - Empty Walls
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