Q+A: Chris Edley (Weird Music Video Director)

The talent that brought you the videos for MGMT’s “Time To Pretend” and “Electric Feel” has yet another tripped-out video for eager eyes and ears. With their video for Saul Williams’ “Convict Colony”, co-directors Chris Edley and Rob Leitzell set out to superimpose Saul into mystifying desert landscapes and nightmarish situations involving multiple other Sauls. It took them weeks and weeks to explode our minds with psychotropic images of Niggy Stardust hanging out with his animal spirit, so we figured we’d ask them what took so long. Read up about this video, and other videos produced by these Gondry-endorsed guys, after the jump in our interview with Chris.

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