James Franco and Tim O'Keefe, aka Daddy, Unveil NSFW Music Video for 'I'm A Sword Swallower'

Today, James Franco and Tim O'Keefe, the duo called Daddy, shared a music video for the new remix from their track "I'm A Sword Swallower" (Prince Rama Remix). James Franco directed and shot the artfully erotic video at the Chateau Marmont.

Check out Daddy - "I'm A Sword Swallower" (Prince Rama Remix) below! (Warning: NSFW!)

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James says about the video: "Everything gets wild at the Chateau Marmont. Bungalow 2, where they rehearsed Rebel Without a Cause in the 50s and Nicholas Ray had his affair with young Natalie Wood. Some hippies threw a party, and things got wild."

Tim says about the track: "Prince Rama's remix creates the perfect soundtrack for our short film that explores gender, power play, and Hollywood lore in a cinematic psychedelic dream. Prince Rama and Daddy are a match made in heaven."

Daddy's debut album Let Me Get What I Want is available in a limited edition dark pink vinyl and the regular album is available here.

The motivation behind Daddy, the newly formed band comprised of artists James Franco and Timothy O'Keefe, is to push beyond the sonic space of music into the surrounding ecology. Daddy investigates the territories of film/video, installation, and performance while simultaneously exploring the connections that form between them.

While sampling has been an established and prevalent method of modern music making, Daddy's approach moves beyond the 'art of sampling' into the act of appropriation. Not just appropriating a genre of music, but the moments it inhabits, and the characters that embody it.

Like many bands before them, Franco and O'Keefe met as students in art school. While in school, they collaborated on many projects including Franco's 2011 Endless Idaho installation at the Gagosian Gallery in L.A. before forming Daddy in late 2011.

Drawing from the individual practices of both Franco and O'Keefe, Daddy brings together the interests and talents of these two artists. Franco continues his exploration of identity. Through appropriating and recontextualizing material from his work as an actor, director, and individual, he questions the existing boundaries between. O'Keefe, the musician behind , brings to Daddy his imaginative sense of sound and play, creating evocative arrangements that merge together the assumed separations between time, space, and cultures.

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