Fiona Apple’s ‘Hot Knife’ Video, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Fiona Apple Hot Knife VideoWith filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson between projects and Fiona Apple on an indefinite hiatus from the road, the former couple and longtime music video collaborators have found time to complete the clip they started before Anderson parted to make The Master. Watch them emphasize the cut’s multitracked vocals above as Fiona (with her sister, Maude Maggart) performs The Idler Wheel closing number “Hot Knife” in split-screen. By the way, note how well their approach complements Angel Olsen’s 16mm video from January as a kind of blunt, less surreal answer to  “Tiniest Seed.”