Kasbo’s troubled waters

Directed by Jessie McCall through Foreign Family Collective, this creatively-shot promo, titled I’m In Trouble, sees Swedish electronic musician Kasbo starring in his own music video for the first time in ten years. 

In slow, dreamlike vignettes, we see the artist fall into stormy waters. As the current pulls him deeper, he swirls among underwater dancers, each of whom holds a silken fabric casting rich, painterly hues against the ocean’s dark depth. 

“Underwater, the world moves slowly, sounds fade, and there's this feeling of stillness,” Kasbo says. “To me, there was this direct relation to being on a stormy ocean surface, trying desperately to keep your head above water. Whereas the world beneath the surface represented this stillness where you allowed yourself to move at a slower pace and appreciate the beauty of things around you.”