Uncle Alice and Jilly Idle have been collaborating on music on and off for decades. YXY? is

a song that Uncle wrote for the Door Mat series; Jilly did her interpretation of it in the style

of the music for the series, folk with a bit of down home country charm. It was sad and sweet, and very fitting for the movie and its characters. She also did a disco-inspired version that

we used in flashbacks.

Some years after the films, they got back together to remake the song, going back to it’s original roots… a rock-tinged punk anthem. And I think they did a brilliant job of it.

When I went to Chicago in 2015 to film N25 scenes and the “Blood & Tinsel” music video,

we also got together to shoot some setups of a music video for YXY?. We shot several scenes at Uncle’s parents’ house, at Jilly’s home, and outside Rosehill Cemetery.

As I started putting it together, I realized I could use some additional footage to pull it all together. When Uncle Alice came to visit Los Angeles, we dressed her up and had her lip sync.

I put the whole thing together and debuted it online in spring of 2017. Later that same year,

in November, we put together a retrospect show that we did at Martyr’s featuring bits from most of our projects, including the “YXY?” music video. It was a definite crowd pleaser.

And one of my proud moments, bringing a vision to Jilly and Uncle’s art.

2017, color, HD digital video, 3 min.

Click on thumbnails below to start slideshow of images from the music video!