The Chemical Brothers and Beck have unveiled the music video to their collaboration "Wide Open." The track was taken from The Chemical Brothers' 2015 album Born In The Echoes that features other songs alongside the likes of St. Vincent and Q-Tip.
The video is a simple, yet evocative take on love and body image. It features a lone dancer in a large warehouse space who gracefully moves around the space to the tune of the track. Her body slowly morphs into a holey, non-flesh entity limb-by-limb.
The slow, haunting and measured instrumental beats with Beck's soothing vocals, cooing "One day just gonna see me / Look back and forth from the ceiling / (I'm wide open) / Someday love's gonna hurt me / Turn back and soon I'll believe it" matches the woman's eventual transition into a see through entity.
The video was directed by dom&nic, who has collaborated with the British duo in the past on their videos for "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" and "Setting Sun." The director has also worked with Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie and Trent Reznor.
A press release outlines the technical details behind how the woman was transformed into what she becomes.
"Dom&nic's vision was to merge the mechanical and organic, having been inspired by procedural cellular structures; their VFX Team created a full CG model of the dancer, Sonoya Mizuno, comprising of 107 individual anatomic rigs, as well as bespoke tools to allow the seamless transformation which happens during the dance."
"Wide Open" is taken from The Chemical Brothers' 2015 album Born in The Echoes that received a Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
Watch the clip below.
