Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “I See A Darkness”

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “I See A Darkness” (Dir. Ben Berman)

In the video for this weirdly sprightly re-recording of what’s probably his best-loved song, Will Oldham chicken-struts around some nameless European city (I want to say Prague, but I really have no idea), while the pupils of his eyeballs digitally fly off in different directions and Ben Berman films everything in classicist high-contrast black-and-white. The thing looks great, and the eyeball trick is funny and disorienting. But the real selling point is grandpa-dancing Oldham himself, displaying an utterly peerless weirdo charisma that’s just as hard to describe as it is to deny.