A history lesson in the semiotics and signifiers of gay sex. Both educational and entertaining. The music video for Maclean’s House of Air directed by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston takes sexual acts that might be deemed grotesque or extreme and splashes them with comedy, and thus humanity. From poo on a face to deep anal fisting, the video removes these acts from the pornographic sphere — instead serving as an enlightening tool for those who ask one too many questions. It’s radical in its content but accessible in its tone, treading the line perfectly it asks not for approval because it doesn’t give the viewer the opportunity to give it. Approval lies with the artists in the video. It’s much more than just the sum of its parts, however, and it depicts casually perhaps what the ever elusive idea of acceptance might mean: allowing the transgressive to exist happily, not shamefully. - Tom Rasmussen