Sébastien Guérive‘s video for his track “Omega II,” off the French composer/producer’s upcoming album Omega Point (Atypeek Music / The Orchard), has garnered plenty of praise, including awards from the Indie Short Fest Los Angeles and HOLLYWOOD Gold Awards. Directed by Thomas Blanchard and featuring the dancer Alice Regnouf, the visuals combine post-production effects compositing the dancer’s movements with extraordinary time-lapse and macro photography.
Guérive’s “Omega II” is a thrilling cut of dark ambiance featuring rippling pulsations and searing textures of tone and glitch that coalesce into spiraling matrices of sonic creation. Blanchard follows suit with a series of images that depict “birth and the perpetual motions of life that follow it.” Seeming to use “the dance” as a visual metaphor for the act of creation, “Omega II” also employs images of a butterfly hatching from its chrysalis, a phenomenon they were able to capture by filming the metamorphosis of a caterpillar in a small lightbox over a two-week period.
The write-up for the video explains:
“Our society is made up of individuals, all distinct from one another, and each with their own subjectivity. The animal kingdom is no different. Perhaps, in accepting our similarities to other creatures we can learn to stop viewing ourselves as superior to other life on earth. In doing so we may learn ways to better ourselves and our society to create a future beneficial to each of us. Insects may seem so far removed from us but in observing them we would be able to identify something akin to our cultures.”
