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SKRILLEX – Butterflies

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With intricate and emotional choreography by Holly Blakey, compelling cinematography by Ben Todd, and some slick VFX from Electric Theatre CollectiveBen Strebel's return to music videos is a powerful portrait of lockdown aftershock.

Backed by Skrillex, Starrah & Four Tet’s new track Butterflies, the Biscuit Filmworks director's piece flits between high-drama, tomfoolery and sublime synchronicity, punctuated with ghostly visual motifs that anchor the sense of loss and anxiety.

With weeks spent working with his cast; carrying out interviews with each member about their personal experiences over the past year and which eventually formed the emotional and narrative basis of the film; Strebel has created a film the exemplifies the feeling, as expressed by one young cast member of "[not] growing older because we haven’t had a chance to live for a year.” 

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