We're not entirely sure why but it kind of makes sense that the video for a track named after Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart contains a barren futuristic landscape, haunted castles, fighter jets and sorcery.The track “Gina”, taken from Eastlink's album Mullum Mulllum, was written by the band's Al Montfort who says it’s about “the impending crushing of Australians” . The video created by Eastlink guitarist and vocalist Johann Rashid certainly contains a prophetic sense of doom.While the Melbourne band is on a temporary hiatus while Johann is hanging out in New York, he took some time out to answer some questions about the video.Noisey: What was the inspiration behind the clip?Johann Rashid: The inspiration is the fact that I love making things, especially the Eastlink clips, really fast. I like thinking of a theme and then just scouting the Internet for things that help in putting together an appropriate narrative. Similar to playing in the band, I don't think about it too much.It has a futurist element.It was the future. I love late 90s and early 2000 PC gaming so the visuals are appropriate for my constant graphical research or self-visual fulfillment. Ha!You are now hanging in NYC. Are you playing in any projects/bands at the moment? Any bands that you have seen recently that have left an impressed?Yes I'm playing a few Promise Land shows and Will and I are making a new Home Travel EP. We’re sending stuff back and forth over the Internet. It's slower but still fun and rewarding. As far as band’s in New York, Free Time on Underwater Peoples is rad. They impress me and I'm stoked to have made a clip that's about to drop with their new release. I keep collecting records from dudes I meet. But I don't have any cash for a new record player!“Mullum Mullum” is available now through In the Red.Related features;Promise Land’s New Video for “Recall”Check Out Eastlink’s Four Guitar Attack in the Video for “Overtime”Dutch Party Master Legowelt’s Remix of Home Travel’s “My Shadow”
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