MOTO KOMPLETE (2018) - BEHIND THE SCENES
I love this song - how it all seems to emerge organically from a single tone. I knew there needed to be a circular orange shag rug and big rotating camera before anything else. I imagined the fringe of a shag rug moving by the camera like a soundwave. There’s the lurching erratic build to the music that suggested the struggle to pick yourself up, being pulled upward by desire - downward by gravity.
This was the video for which I built the large rotating metal arm that would be used a number of times in future videos. Most of the month I spent prepping for the video was just building the rig. Originally the camera was meant to move up and down on a vertical slider - moving up and down like ocean waves, but I couldn’t make it work in time. I’d still like to do a video like that at some point.
Jordan Morley - the dancer - was a joy to work with. I think we had one zoom meeting where he showed me what he was working on, but for the most part it was parallel play - I gave him the basic brief of the spinning camera and the stilted upward movement I was looking for and then the rest of it was worked out on the day. The camera arm had a maximum of around 5 rpm, so for the climax of the video everything was done half-speed, which leant the choreography and even more jittery quality.
This is a simple video, but secretly it might be my favorite.