Earlier work

I Do, We Do

2016 · Visual & CommunicationMusic: Marlow: I Do, We DoLabel context: Sonar KollektivRole: Video design and editing

I Do, We Do is an experimental music video for Marlow’s track from the 2016 album In The Backroom.

The complete experimental music video.

Project

I wanted to work with video glitches as material rather than add them as a finished visual effect. Using Avidemux and terminal tools, I altered information inside the video files until the images began to break, shift, and recombine in unexpected ways.

I then selected and assembled those results in After Effects. The process moved back and forth between deliberately damaging the files and making precise editing decisions about the images that emerged.

A short sequence showing altered colours and broken image data.

What was created

The result was a complete music video in which manipulated footage, compression artefacts, colour shifts, and broken image structures move with Marlow’s track. The errors were not decoration added afterwards; they formed the visual material of the piece.

Looking back

Working this way meant giving up some control at the beginning. Breaking the files produced images I could not have designed frame by frame. The actual design work came afterwards, in choosing which accidents belonged in the video and which were simply noise.

Credits

Music: Marlow. Release context: Sonar Kollektiv. Video design and editing: Oliver Hannemann.