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[[Image:MOTPstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "March Of The Pigs" video]]

A [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] was made for this song, directed by [[Peter Christopherson]] and released in March of 1994. The video features the band performing the song live in front of a white wall backdrop. Reportedly, around a dozen takes were done, and the final video take was the one that "did not suck." It's filmed in one shot, a rare occurrence for music videos. This video was the last video to be played on MTV2's ''Increase the Beat'', on Memorial Day weekend 2002. At 269 BPM, it had the fastest tempo of the 400+ videos that were played that weekend.

A previous version of the video was partially shot but abandoned, and is included in glimpses on the ''Closure'' DVD. The band performs the song in a red, cave-like set with water at their feet, with a troll-like midget in costume running in and out of the set.

===Credits===

*Cameraman: Dick Buckley

*Editor: Philip Richardson

A previous version of the video was partially shot but abandoned, and is included in glimpses on the ''Closure'' DVD. The band performs the song in a red, cave-like set with water at their feet, with a troll-like midget in costume running in and out of the set. Photographer Joseph Cultice, who was on set to document the shoot, elaborated on the original video for ''Revolver'' Magazine:

<blockquote>It looked too much like a video they'd done before with the director [Peter Christopherson]. So we stayed [in the studio] the next day and they shot that 'March of the Pigs' [performance] video. They came up with the idea at night: a one-camera shot. And they shot it maybe five times all the way through, and that was it. Trent's in a big black plastic pool they made, basically a kiddie pool. What was supposed to happen in the scene was there's creature hands that come up and grab his head and pull him underwater. So he's laying there getting ready for that. And underneath him is a guy in a black outfit that you can barely see him, but [those are his] hands. That water was really really warm, it was like a Jacuzzi. It's inside this, like, cave they built inside with water and smoke machines. They just jumped around there really, really loudly to 'March of the Pigs' for 20 million takes.[https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/nine-inch-nails-march-pigs-scrapped-original-video-iconic-final-cut]

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