“inside everybody fights
inside everybody burns
[…]
inside everybody’s dead”
 
There is something absolutely terrifying about seeing empty mask of those characters that gave you moments of joy when you was a sinless kid.
Their symbolic value, the pure childhood that they remind about and now that you are an adult you can understand all these meaning, but also all the lies that hide themselves behind.
 
What is the icon more that any others that lives in the our childhood? Mickey Mouse, of course.
 
For the videoclip of ‘Drowning’, the artist and video maker Edward Mavskegg, known professionally as Mavskegg and in his firsts works as Edward 209 creates a story as dark as the harsh ebm music from mexican duo Hocico.
 
Mavskegg resumes the scary contrast conceived by Marilyn Manson in his ‘the Golden age of grotesque’ era, with Mickey Mouse’s ears mixed with teeth like sharp thorns and gives birth to a more sinister version of the most political video by Sigismondi, Incubus’ “Megalomaniac”: Mavskegg not only makes all more disturbing by playing with less bright tones, shaky lights and strange shots, but he dares even more with the collage, using different sources and techniques.
The Micke Mouse dictator realized in clay animation lives in a world where elements in stop-motion (like toys used) and found footage of old (or aged via software) events are mixed with cut-out photography (like crowd’s hands) and motion pictures parts like, maybe, the best scene: a family who seem to be born from a Lynch’s movie.
 
The struggle between Mickey Mouse and an angry version of Donald Duck (or maybe it is Howard) is a helpless metaphor of two dictatorship: the media’s one and and military one…. you know, maybe only evil can defeat evil.