Music Video
A video was also made for "Rhinoceros", which was one of the Pumpkins earliest videos. It was directed by Angela Conway, who also directed "Siva". There are three main parts to the video.
The first is footage filmed on a sound stage featuring the band members "looking bored", and playing guitars. In one part of these scenes, D'Arcy is playing with a white ping pong ball which appears to float, an effect that was achieved by filming the scene in slow motion and then running it backwards. It is one of the most well-known scenes from the video.
Corgan has said in the commentary DVD for the video that the original plan for the video was to have these scenes filmed in a very small red room, so small that the band members were constantly on top of each other. This idea was inspired in part by the video for "Close to Me" by The Cure. When they arrived at the set to film, they were given a very large purple room, so instead of being cramped together, the band moved as far away from each other as they could.
There is also live footage from a small club show in London. This footage did not work out as planned and so it is only shown near the end of the video, starting with the guitar solo. The third type of footage used in the video consists of shots of the band in Hyde Park, London. The four members of the band took a video camera to the park and filmed themselves in various poses to make up for the poor live footage.
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