Watch Viet Cong’s futuristically-influenced video for ‘Silhouettes’

Viet Cong have shared the video for their latest single ‘Silhouettes’, taken from their self-titled debut album released last week on Jagjaguwar.

Directed by Brook Linder, the group requested that he should look at sci-fi films as a reference point for the track’s visual, telling the New York Times: “We’re all sci-fi junkies. There’s always a lot of Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke being read in the van”.

The result is a mixture of early and modern sci-fi tropes, depicting an astronaut searching an empty home with uncanny effects. A smoke filled chest is the spaceman’s Holy Grail, though the plot thickens with a drone like vehicle shadowing his search. It’s completed with still images of computers, an unidentified man and red blood-like clouds that turns the video into a bit of a disturbing head scratcher.

DIY’s Tom Walters recently caught up with Viet Cong when they were last in London. Read the interview here and watch the video for ‘Silhouettes’ below.