BRENDAN MACLEAN // House of Air (NSFW 18+)

An anthropological study of gay semiotics, taxonomies, and sexual behaviours.

Directed by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston (with apologies to Hal Fischer)
Featuring Rowland, Harry Clayton-Wright, JD Dean, Drew Kingston, Brendan Maclean, and Ashley Ryder

OFFICIAL SELECTION / SXSW Film Festival / Midnight Shorts
OFFICIAL SELECTION / Raindance Film Festival / Music Video Category
OFFICIAL SELECTION / Maryland Film Festival
NOMINATED / Best Music Video / Berlin Music Video Awards
WINNER / Most Trashy / Berlin Music Video Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION / Hamburg International Short Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION / Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest
WINNER / Best Humor / SECS FEST
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024 / Berghain Halle

"One of the smartest, most compelling videos I’ve seen in years." - HuffPost Queer Voices

"Incredible...essential and provocative viewing...a bold and audacious celebration of gay sex." - PromoNews

"It’s educational, sometimes voyeuristic, and absolutely engrossing." - Vulture (No. 3, Top 10 music videos of 2017)

"Truly putting the ‘N’ in ‘NSFW’...with Brendan MacLean’s ‘House Of Air’ video, it felt really refreshing to see that queer art can still be subversive, provocative and… yeah, a little bit gross, to be honest." - HuffPost (No. 6, Best music videos of 2017)

"With ‘House Of Air’, Maclean is in many ways picking up where George Michael left off. Delivering queerness in its most unapologetic and honest form, it aims for the heart of a beige hetero-society and scores a direct hit." - Hey-Nineteen

"While a vast majority of queer musicians fuss over packaging their music for mainstream and heterosexual audiences, House of Air does the complete opposite – celebrating a history that can’t simply be rolled in glitter." - SameSame

"It’s radical in its content but accessible in its tone...it depicts casually perhaps what the ever elusive idea of acceptance might mean: allowing the transgressive to exist happily, not shamefully." - 4:3



PRESS //

Vulture: The 10 Best Music Videos of 2017 (No.3)
Huffington Post: 2017's Best Music Videos (No.6)
Junkee:The 20 Best Music Videos Of 2017
HuffPost Queer Voices
The Guardian
The Hollywood Reporter
The Advocate
Promo News
SBS
Fucking Young
Accidental Bear
Hey Nineteen
The Culture Trip