SERJ TANKIAN: 'Saving Us' Video Available

The third video has been released from Serj Tankian's upcoming solo album, "Elect the Dead". The "Saving Us" clip — which was directed by acclaimed rock photographer Kevin Estrada — can be viewed below.

The SYSTEM OF A DOWN vocalist will hold a series of "theatre listening parties" around the country on October 22 where all 12 videos from "Elect the Dead" will be screened. Tankian enlisted video and film directors, painters and digital artists to each create a different short film for the dozen tracks on the record.

Tankian, who financed the clips himself, told The Pulse of Radio it's much simpler these days to make creative, low-budget videos on your own. "I mean, the technology's out there and the artists are out there, and there's a lot of creative people and it's not just about using typical MTV directors or well-known people because they've done it before," he said. "It's about using people with a passion, and that passion is really coming through and I've seen some of the best MTV-style videos I've ever seen in my life through some of these friends of ours that have done these videos. It's amazing."

The directors involved in the project include a prestigious array of artists whom Tankian has befriended over the last decade. They include music video director Tony Petrossian (TAKING BACK SUNDAY, SLIPKNOT, AVENGED SEVENFOLD),who shot the video for "Empty Walls", the first single from "Elect The Dead", photographer/video director Greg Watermann (MUDVAYNE, LAMB OF GOD, HOWIE DAY),Oscar-nominated Puerto Rican playwright and screenwriter Jose Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries"),French film director Diran Noubar ("Armenia: A Country Under Blockade"),digital artist Roger Kupelian ("The Lord of the Rings"; "Flags of Our Fathers"),documentary director Sevag Vrej (SYSTEM OF A DOWN, FAIR TO MIDLAND),and Beirut-born filmmaker Gariné Torossian (SPARKLEHORSE),among others.

"Elect the Dead" arrives on October 23.

The list of theatre locations is:

New Hyde Park, NY - Herricks Cinema
Parsippany, NJ - Parsippany Cinema
San Francisco, CA - Embarcadero Center Cinema
San Diego, CA - Ultrastar Theatres Mission Valley
Cambridge, MA - Kendall Square Cinema
Chicago, IL - Century Centre Cinema
Novi, MI - Emagine Novi
Wayne, PA - Clearviews Anthony Wayne Cinema
Seattle, WA - Metro Cinemas
Houston, TX - The River Oaks
Minneapolis, MN - Lagoon Cinema
Tempe, AZ - Harkins Tempe Marketplace

A complete list of videos and directors is below:

01. "Empty Walls" - Director: Tony Petrossian
02. "The Unthinking Majority" - Director: Tawd Dorrnfeld
03. "Money" - Director: Ara Soudjian
04. "Feed Us" - Director: Sevag Verj
05. "Saving Us" - Director: Kevin Estrada
06. "Sky is Over" - Director: José Rivera
07. "Baby" - Director: Diran Noubar
08. "Honking Antelope" - Director: Roger Kupelian
09. "Lie, Lie, Lie" - Director: Martha Colburn
10. "Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammo" - Director: Greg Watermann
11. "Beethoven's C***" - Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer
12. "Elect The Dead" - Director: Gariné Torossian

For ticket information, visit www.DandEentertainment.com.