MMOTHS (a.k.a. Jack Colleran), the Dublin-based electronic music producer, has been around for several years now, but this year he’s finally getting around to releasing his debut album Lunworks. Previously, we’ve covered MMOTHS in our 10 Under 20 list, but today the attention is on his new music video for “Deu,” another beautiful entry in his body of dense, swirling electronic textures. Co-directed by Hassan Rahim and Scott J. Ross, the “Deu” video features multi-frame scenarios that together form a mystifying visual experience.
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“With the song titled 'Deu,' the theme of religious or spiritual vision kept naturally coming up,” Rahim tells The Creators Project. “At first we considered making the entire video just a single slow motion shot of the flowers burning. But the idea eventually expanded into a series of non-narrative still lifes that riff on the theme of things being illuminated or extinguished.”
Rahim and Ross used the RED Epic camera for most of the video, keeping it sharp and clean for some shots, then pushing the sensitivity to the maximum in other shots in order to create heavy video noise. “We also used unique high speed consumer camera, the Casio EX-F1, to shoot slow motion footage inside the Rodin Museum,” Ross adds.
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