ANOHNI: TURNING and Five Music Videos
6 Episodes
Built around her ineffably plaintive voice, the music of ANOHNI speaks to the soul like no other, entwining aching human emotion with a cutting political edge. Curated by ANOHNI herself, this selection of music videos—presented alongside TURNING, a performance-art concert film by Charles Atlas and ANOHNI, featuring Antony and the Johnsons—extends her transcendent sonic world into a richly symbolic visual language, drawing on influences from queer performance, experimental cinema, political-protest imagery, and elemental natural forms. Each is a carefully chosen collaboration with fellow artists and icons—including Lorraine O’Grady, Naomi Campbell, and Marina Abramović—that deepens the emotional resonance of her music.
-
TURNING
Episode 1
Directed by Charles Atlas • 2012 • Denmark, United States
A collaboration between musician and artist ANOHNI and pioneering video artist Charles Atlas (HAIL THE NEW PURITAN, BECAUSE WE MUST), TURNING follows the 2006 European tour of Antony and the Johnsons. Having risen to visibility after bein...
-
04:07Episode 3
Another World
Episode 3
Directed by Colin Whitaker • 2008 • United States
Starring Lola NaisseDancer Lola Naisse stars in this music video for the title track of ANOHNI and the Johnsons’ EP “Another World.”
-
04:25Episode 4
Hope There’s Someone
Episode 4
Directed by Glen Fogel • 2005 • United States
Starring Joey GabrielNan Goldin muse Joey Gabriel stars in this music video for the single from ANOHNI and the Johnsons’ second studio album, “I Am a Bird Now.”
-
04:14Episode 5
Drone Bomb Me
Episode 5
Directed by Nabil Elderkin • 2016 • United Kingdom
Starring Naomi CampbellNaomi Campbell stars in this music video for the single from ANOHNI’s debut solo album, “Hopelessness.”
-
04:58Episode 6
Cut the World
Episode 6
Directed by Nabil Elderkin • 2012 • United Kingdom
Starring Willem Dafoe, Marina Abamović, Carice van HoutenWillem Dafoe, Carice van Houten, and Marina Abramović star in this music video for the song by ANOHNI, written for Robert Wilson’s play “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović.”