The latest video by Detroit-based electro-avant-pop artist Matthew Dear was directed and produced by San Diego filmmaker/Sezio cohort Charles Bergquist:

Almost a full year after the release of Matthew Dear’s monochromatic opus, Black City, the album’s swansong single, “Slowdance,” gets a video.

San Diego filmaker Charles Bergquist was tasked with transforming the undulating piece of goth romanticism into a video. He received, basically, creative autonomy, and set about trying to decipher a track that is, in his words, “about the disruption of memory, at its visual core.” The result is a fluid, heady, almost voyeuristic collage of urban landscapes, visual effects, and unsubtle shots of a certain ingenue. “In the song’s build and layering of memories of her,” he says, “She, the environment shared, and the unknown becomes blended, fractured and infinitely heaped together.” It does look like thinking backwards feels—uncertain, romantic, bizarre.”

(h/t Indigenous)