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Animal Collective and Gaspar Noe Team for Epileptic ‘Applesauce’ Video

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It’s time to add another European auteur to the Centipedia, SPIN’s list of Animal Collective’s unlikely influences. This time it’s controversial French filmmaker Gaspar Noé, the director behind the need-to-shower-after-watching Irreversible. Noé and Animal Collective teamed up for “Applesauce,” a track from the band’s 2012 disc Centipede Hz. While the song’s lyrics equate the journey of a fruit to the lifespan of a man, the premise of the video is much simpler: A woman eats a fruit while you’re coerced into a fit. It’s like the seizure-inducing opening credits to Enter the Void except the barrage of neon lights are replaced by a silhouette of a woman eating a peach. Or a mango, it’s hard to tell, but it does get all over her face. Noé’s video was inspired by Paul Sharits’ experimental film N:O:T:H:I:N:G, which you can watch here.