"Amanita" (stylized in all caps) is an art video directed by Tony Katai starring Mars Argo.
Background[]
The video was planned to be a longer short film but according to Katai, "[Argo] quit in the middle of filming" for unknown reasons. It was filmed on December 24th, 2015,[1] and released almost one full year later on December 17th, 2016,[2] as part of the Poppy ARG.
Synopsis[]
The video features Argo walking around a desert, occasionally posing or making strange movements, while the instrumental song "Time Compressed/T-Zero" by Manta plays in the background. The title of the video is Amanita for multiple reasons according to Katai's ramblings in a now-deleted comment:
"one being the jacket. its simular to a st nick jacket but yellow, resembling the yellow variety of amanita. st nick was a shaman who would go out into the woods & pick amanitas from under the pines (christmas tree) & take them to the village & give to the families (gifts) . its no suprise that reindeer eat these mushrooms naturally... and one may hallucinate reindeer flying while on th mushroom. anyways, the jacket is very significant, special... symbolic. two if you study the landscape of the scene one of the rocks resemble a mushroom. the location is also very special as i was lead there by a magic spanish woman on a random adventure just a month prior to the video in search of hot springs in the high desert." one being the jacket. its simular to a st nick jacket but yellow, resembling the yellow variety of amanita. st nick was a shaman who would go out into the woods & pick amanitas from under the pines (christmas tree) & take them to the village & give to the families (gifts) . its no suprise that reindeer eat these mushrooms naturally... and one may hallucinate reindeer flying while on th mushroom. anyways, the jacket is very significant, special... symbolic. two if you study the landscape of the scene one of the rocks resemble a mushroom. the location is also very special as i was lead there by a magic spanish woman on a random adventure just a month prior to the video in search of hot springs in the high desert. | ||
| Katai on "Amanita" | ||
Argo took the video down months after its release, along with "Everybody Wants It All", likely in an effort to cut ties with Poppy and Titanic Sinclair. The video has since been re-uploaded by fans and Katai himself on various occasions.
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Trivia[]
- The coat Argo wears is a Lanvin coat from their Pre-Fall 2015 collection.