Premiere: Turner Cody’s “Death is the Friend You Never Met”

Director Chris Tucci shares insight on a bleak, beautiful music video

When met with a song about death, music video directors can go in innumerable directions for complementary visuals: undercut the sorrow, emphasize it, heighten the fear, obscure it. For folk singer Turner Cody‘s new track “Death is the Friend You Never Met,” director Chris Tucci actually takes several routes, binding them neatly in a video of visual queues and structural layers. Here, stark animation meets …