A regular dispatch of essays, criticism, and (pop) cultural ephemera, compiled and mixed by Norman Brannon.

2.22.2010

MOBY “Wait for Me” Dir. Jessica Dimmock and Mark Jackson, 2010

If you’re unfamiliar with Jessica Dimmock’s work, start here. As a photojournalist, her most recognized piece is a series called The Ninth Floor, in which she followed a group of heroin addicts who were squatting in a Fifth Avenue building over the course of a three-year period. For this music video, Moby gave Dimmock $5,000 and complete creative control — and the story speaks for itself: The subject of the video, Jessie, is one of the Ninth Floor addicts, and unlike a few of her roommates, she never got clean.