Blue Kite was written with a cultural intersection in mind. In Canada in the early 00's we grew up to Sum 41. Late night YTV. And the spectre of Woodstock 99. From the outside looking in: being in a punk band meant that you could be a jackass. Pick your nose on stage; play the drum like Energizer Bunny. My relationship to punk music as a teenager hinged on self-deprecation; an easy, destructive mode of confronting what I didn't like about myself. And what I didn't understand about the world around me.
There's a film that came out of China in 1993 and was subsequently banned therein, called The Blue Kite. It's told from the perspective of a boy growing up in 1950's Beijing. His environment is one of social conformity and political correctness, and he relishes in escapism when flying his kite. Eventually the boy succumbs to the social climate, and the kite itself is swept away into the branches of a tree. I thought the imagery was striking and wanted to incorporate it into a video with Aidan's skydiving punk, in a hypnagogic way.
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