WL//WH Video of the Day: ARA CRISTINA HERNANDEZ “Black Hole” (Official Video)

Video Of The Day ARA CRISTINA HERNANDEZ

Ara Cristina Hernandez, the Austin, Texas-based multifaceted Mexican-American producer, songwriter, and visual artist (AKA hojascirculares), teases the upcoming new album, “IMMINENCE,” due out this Fall, with a DIY Official Video for the hypnotic and cathartic new single “BLACK HOLE.”

Ara Cristina‘s work is an investigative synthesis of sound and vision, and is interested in extracting truth from touching the unknown, spanning an ever-evolving wide palette of styles from ambient, drone, industrial, shoegaze, post-punk, to trip-hop, and dub.

It is a Lynchian fever dream, an imagining of a nightmarish scenario where a black hole swallows the Earth. BLACK HOLE is about not turning away from the inevitable darkness and facing it head on. It is the aftermath of staring at the void for too long, and the moment it starts to stare back…

A haunting, arcane primordial ambience built on the melancholic, droning hovering of granular and grinding misty textures that mesh with the steadfast, hissing repetition of shuffling programmed beats to slowly close in on, wistful, pain-filled female vocals, drifting ghost-like in and out of clear connectivity, with a heavy, slow-spinning gravitational pull of loss, forgetfulness, and sorrow.

The accompanying music video was filmed on the desolate desert roads of Marfa, TX, and is inspired by David Lynch’s Lost Highway. The track itself draws influences from Nine Inch Nails, Chelsea Wolfe, and Radiohead, creating an obsidian blend of shoegaze and post-punk to drown your existential dread in…

The visuals filmed, with a VHS camcorder along the supernatural I-10 West corridor in Marfa, Texas, by Ara Cristina Hernandez herself, draw from David Lynch’s surreal parallel timeline imagery to bring forth the mental disorientation of the soundtrack. An alternation of strobing, over-saturated, and inverted lights combines with eerie nighttime, vulnerable, wandering woman footage and skewed spotlight sessions. The thought-provoking ending shows a United States flag flying under a transformative, negative light perception alongside a symbolic industrial flame.

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