RVA’s Iron Reagan are back with a messy new video shot and produced here in Central VA, and if you look close enough you might see you or your friends face getting smashed.
Shot, directed and edited by local filmmaker Dennis Williford, “A Dying World” includes shots from the president head graveyard as well as footage from recent shows at The Broadberry.
Nestled out in Croaker, VA, the president head graveyard is full of massive busts of 43 former presidents that were once part of a for-profit museum, Virginia’s Presidents Park, once located in Williamsburg a few blocks from Busch Gardens.
The busts have since been retired to the farm of Howard Hankins, who Dennis worked with to get permission to film on site.
The band rolled up and set up and performed the track with the ominous figures just a few feet behind them.
It was technically Williford’s first music video, but it was far from his first time behind the camera. You might know him from his skate videos under titles like Toxic Turds, https://rvamag.com/articles/full/25032/local-skate-video-bum-wine-gets-byrd-theatre-debut-94, often featuring local skaters like Trent Hazelwood.
“I brought all my equipment and I was like “what can I do too make the president head thing pop more” and so I got a drone,” said Williford. This gave birth to the number of high-flying pans that swoop over the band as they proceed to melt the collection of presidential faces behind them. This was his first time filming with a drone and it only went terribly wrong a few times… including the closing shot with pits the drone against Roosevelt’s mustache. The drone lost.
“A Dying World” is the opening track off of Iron Reagan’s newest album, Crossover Ministry, which dropped earlier this year and totally and utterly rules.
The video’s release is so perfectly timed with tonight’s Iron Reagan show at the Broadberry, so get out there and recreate some of that pit by snagging tickets here!
Words by Brad Kutner
