MJ Lenderman Clocks In ‘Wristwatch’ Video

MJ Lenderman shared a music video for his song “Wristwatch.” The track appears on the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter’s acclaimed album Manning Fireworks.

Manning Fireworks arrived on September 6, 2024 via Anti-. Lenderman released “Wristwatch” as a single just a few days before the LP arrived and now revisits the song with the “Wristwatch” music video, which “depicts Lenderman driving a pickup truck loaded with basketballs and inflatable pool rafts and repeatedly crashing into an overpass.”

Famed filmmaker Lance Bangs directed the visual and shared some details on the story behind it:

I had been drawn to make things with Jake for a while, and spent the late summer listening to the songs that would make up Manning Fireworks. The imagery of characters caught in persistence without progress that has recurred in his writing was there in “Wristwatch” and that song was the one I went back to the most while listening to the batch of recordings. I had seen low clearance bridges in this part of North Carolina in my past travels, a mismatch between the train trestles that were built in the first half of the 20th Century and the modern 13ft height of most tractor trailers. Durham has a notorious one called the “Canopener” that is featured on a website and YouTube channel “11foot8.com” by Jurgen Henn, who has captured 186 crashes since April of 2008. I took measurements and designed plans to add a few more crashes to Jurgen’s tally.

Watch the video for “Wristwatch” and also check out a behind-the-scenes look below:

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