THE LIVENIRVANA COMPANION TO OFFICIAL RELEASES:
Lithium (Geffen)

Released: 07/92

Director: Kevin Kerslake

Additional Information (largely from CAYA, p.259): The video is a montage of footage from Nirvana's 10/31/91 homecoming show in Seattle and from the video '1991: The Year Punk Broke'. Kerslake uses the clever technique of using the more violent scenes (where the band are trashing their gear) for the quiet parts and vica versa. Originally Kurt had planned something much more ambitious, but CAYA speculates that due to Kurt's drug habit at this time he was perhaps not up to conceptualising a video: "Kerslake says it was to be an animated film about a girl named Prego who lives in a house in a forest. One day she finds a big pile of eggs close to a king's castle. By that time, all the eggs but one have cracked and she takes that egg and carries it up to the king's throne and places in on a large book that's on his lap. He's asleep, but when he wakes, he opens his legs and the book slides between them and closes on the egg. When Kurt and Kerslake discovered that the animation would take four months to do, they went with easily produced live collage".


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