POLITICS: Special Ed – Think About It

This was the third music video I ever directed. It came out in the sping of 1989. I was 23 and Special Ed was only 17!

Ed was truly a brilliant lyricist and this low budget action-movie-style video is just flat-out ridiculous, complete with a hovercraft chase scene and a helicopter. I have no idea how I managed to do this all for $13,0001

I had aspired to become an action movie director, so this was a test for me to learn some of these tricks but the Hollywood was very misogynistic back then – the opposite of what it is today, where the prerequisite for being hired is to either be a woman or a Person of Color. I was very salty about that whole situation.

I never became a Hollywood action, like my rold model, Kathryn Bigelow. In hindsight, this was probably a good thing, as I might have been molded into a monster.

Anyway, this video totally cracks me up! Those were the days!

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