Nightclubs in Heaven is a short film I have made from clips originally shot for the SCHIZO-WAVE project. The visuals depict a piece of performance art, where large sheets of lightweight plastic are draped over the models and set against a power-fan. This causes the plastic sheets to billow and flutter upwards like the movement of fire, clinging to the figures and greatly defining their forms.
This performance art piece represents a duality of ideals when concerning the modern industrial world. On one side the graceful and lucid manner of the plastic-clad figures can suggest an industrial harmony in modern life, yet on the other side there is a sense of suffocation and claustraphobia, the use of inverted/negative colour causing the figures to seem naturally bioluminescent, struggling against an endless wave of plastic that resembles black smoke.
The music, also called ‘Nightclubs in Heaven’, is taken from my ongoing project Paradise Faux.
