headmade (digital video, 2022)

This music video started with a very deep, low sound of a steamroller I recorded. When I pitched this up in Logic, it began to sound almost like a strange bowed instrument. This unique timbre, heard starting in the video at 1:23, provided the missing ingredient I needed to finish a song I'd felt stuck on. Once I completed the track, I constructed the visual elements to complement the optimistic yet longing and distant emotional tone I sensed in the music. To increase tension through visual contrast, I used black and white, smooth slow motion alongside jittery stop-motion, and imagery charged with associations of childhood or freedom juxtaposed against images that represent death and change.

It won Best Music Video at Onyko Films Awards in 2022.