Marika Hackman Goes Ham on Some Copiers for “the one” Video

Alternative eccentric Marika Hackman looks like an unpaid intern in her new video for ‘the one’: making copies, fidgeting in an oversized suit and Converse and destroying expensive office printing equipment with a baseball bat. Maybe not so much the last one, but the comparison still stands.

Hackman lets loose for the absurd and lighthearted cut, switching back and forth between a dull office employee and her punk-provocateur alter ego as the video builds to its climax: the sweet, sweet wrecking of a photocopier. Shards of plastic fly everywhere. Strobes flash. Hackman winces. Everyone’s happy.

“I want to do a performance vid in a photocopier, where the imagined rockstar in me performs with gusto as the mediocre, let-down version of me watches,” Hackman said of the Louis Bhose (ex-Bombay Bicycle Club-keyboardist-turned-award-winning-director, naturally)-directed video.