Frozen "pee landscapes" feature in music video for Marle Thomson's Levitation
Music: audiovisual artist Kamiel Rongen used his own frozen urine to create visuals in the music video for Dutch musician Marle Thomson's debut track Levitation (+ movie).
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To create the video, Rongen recycled footage created for a project called Pure Gold – an installation comprising a row of five urinals along an Amsterdam street outside Mediamatic, the studio where he works.
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Each plumbing fixture was located beneath a video screen that played images of "pee landscapes" created using the frozen liquid.
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Thomson saw the installation at Mediamatic, so went inside and asked Rongen – who composes and directs under the moniker Hyde Park – to make the video for her.
The director cut clips of the urine block from the installation with shots of plants and colourful paint globules moving around in water.
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The oil-based paint creates hypnotic effects similar to those Rongen produced in his Shortcutz video – one of a series of clips called Waterballet.
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All of the filming took place inside a fish tank, and Rongen created the moving paint effects with his bare hands. He completed the film in just a couple of evenings.
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Rather than use a narrative for the video, Rongen simply chose to create visuals that went with the track after listening to it over and over.
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"I never make stories," said Rongen. "I play the song on repeat in the background and then try to make a surrounding that fits the audio, searching for colours, shadow, textures, movements and so on."
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"Marle's song is very small and vulnerable," he added. "I guess the video also has that feeling."
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Levitation – out now – is taken from Thomson's The Canopy EP, which will be released 26 February 2016.