There's much that is stereotypically psychedelic about director
Johnny Maroney's music video for "No One by Jeffertitti's Nile, but as with the band itself, there's much more than meets the eye. As the music video explodes from its geometric black and white beginnings into more colorful chaotic realms, every triangular prism that first catches a viewer's attention becomes supplemented by increasingly more fascinating subleties. Amidst the swirling chaos, a shamanic figure symbolically sends frontman Jeff Ramuno to his death as he levitates -- and when the madness breaks into blue-skied clarity, former band member Alyson Kennon's shadow turns from her own into that of a ballerina, recalling
Disney's Salvador Dali-inspired animation, Destino.
In the compare and contrast Q&A session below, director Johnny Maroney and frontman Jeff Ramuno discuss how life
is surrealism, the ways in which existence flows in and out of itself eternally, and their history of psychic collaboration.
They're so artistically close they even swap spit on the physical plane.