After smashing it out of the Parc Del Forum last week, CMAT has released a video for the song ‘Peter Bogdanovich’ from the album If My Wife New I’d Be Dead.
The song is inspired by a podcast about the behind the scenes goings-on in the 1971 movie The Last Picture Show, and the video, directed by Jake Passmore, picks up the theme with CMAT dressing as that film’s director.
“I wrote the song Peter Bogdanovich after listening to a podcast about the making of the film The Last Picture Show. To cut a long story short, Peter ran away and left his wife for yungwan (the lead actress in the film, Cybill Shepherd). I was taken by this particular story because I love his early films, and I loved finding out that his wife, Polly Platt, was the player who was actually responsible for what I love most about his films. I was really interested in everyone’s motivations – Peter for acting so selfishly, Cybill for throwing a bomb on a marriage and her work, and most of all Polly, for staying to work on the film even after the affair came out. I think it is a great allegory for the role that the construct of gender plays in all of our decisions, and how if gender and sexuality wasn’t really seen as such a rigid ‘thing’, our lives would be very different.
“I approached director Jake Passmore with the idea of doing a video where I was in Boy Drag because a) it worked with the theme of the song b) I thought it would be really fun. Himself and Sam Brautigan, who co-directed, then came up with a brilliant abstract treatment around me playing Peter Bogdanovich that involved choreography, Orson Welles and a puppet. What more could I possibly want? These are all my favourite things, and all of the actors and crew were wildly talented and so pulled it off, which I don’t think was easy given how weird the joint is.”
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