Jason Harvey Lives Somewhere Between LOL and Serious  By Joshua
Frank  Montreal video artist Jason Harvey’s world is one of hip
extraterrestrials, anthropomorphized cigarettes and 18th century
wigs. He’s been steadily making music videos for the cream of
Canada’s crop, with sleazy cat animations and costumed cavorting
for rawk sybarite Mac Demarco and lush, layered footage for the
austere, intense pop group Majical Cloudz.  The first piece of
Jason’s I ever saw was of a stoic animated butt releasing gas to
the strains of classical music. Since then, Jason has embraced a
more hi-fi aesthetic, shooting with fancy cameras and trying the
Young Professional lifestyle on for size—without foregoing the
wonkiness of his earlier, more flatulent experiments.  His
latest video, made for the inscrutable Montreal muzak duo Prime
Cuts, is a confounding, rather homoerotic romp through generic
stock scenes—pouring coffee, riding bikes and popping champagne
bottles with your best pal in the woods.  Jason’s work takes the
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