Slow Riot‘s latest video is for Absent Dreams.
“The idea for the Absent Dreams video came to me almost subliminally, without thinking directly about it,” director Lukasz Pytlik explains. “All of a sudden I started to visualise hallucinatory images of an Octopus, a man’s descent into madness, and dark city streets which just tied together with the title of the track so well.”
“The treatment then started to write itself, it all felt very ‘Lovecraft-ian’ in both its evolution and imagery.”
“Shooting the idea was a challenge in itself as it’s predominantly set within the confines of a car. We had to use 10mm lenses – the same ones as used in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – just to be able to capture the action. And working with the smell of a dead octopus certainly took some getting used to.”
Slow Riot are at the Sebright Arms in London on November 10th and from there play the Kasbah, Limerick (12th) and the Warzone Centre, Belfast (19th).
