Slowshift
Slowshift only plays acoustic instruments. It seemed wrong to fake anything back, so the whole thing was shot through a microscope on a desk in our office. No CGI, no set, no location. Everything that moves in frame moves because it's alive. A world that was there all along, too small to be noticed, playing along.
Mostly this was an experiment that got out of hand. The living things are real: copepods and rotifers from SINTEF Ocean's SeaLab, amphipods and shrimp we scooped out of the Trondheim fjord ourselves, and flowers, ants, a wasp. Under the glass we mixed them with dish soap, oil, beer, wine, whatever was on the desk, and ran the light through darkfield condensers we'd 3D-printed and then deliberately misused, bending it into prisms and rainbows. A music video that started as two people playing with a microscope.
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