The production design for this lush and lavish video for Antony and the Johnsons' "Epilepsy Is Dancing", a highlight from their fantastic new album The Crying Light, is breathtaking. Intricately crafted masks, flowers and butterflies dripping from Antony Hegarty's lips, vibrantly painted bodies undulating on the floor-- it's a veritable orgy of color (there are also some bare breasts in the clip, so it might be NSFW.). A note from the label explains that it was very much a group effort:"Antony asked his friends the Wachowski Brothers to work with him on a video for his new single 'Epilepsy Is Dancing'. They in turn invited painters Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paradiso to create costumes and a mystical environment and choreographer Sean Dorsey and his dancers to bring the dream sequence to life. Antony's artistic partner Johanna Constantine stars as herself in the role of 'Deer Monster'. The video was lit and shot by the up-and-coming directors of photography, Chris Blasingame and Banker White, and produced by Jim Jerome. The production team collectively named themselves AFAS. Please enjoy the fruits of their San Francisco art party."So there you have it, from the Wachowski Brothers on down, all these folks came together to make this strange and mysterious video for a terrific song.Pitchfork.tv page with embed code is here.[from The Crying Light; out now in the U.S. on Secretly Canadian and in the UK and Europe on Rough Trade]