This music video exploits a glitch inherent in most modern digital video cameras, that being the distortion caused by rolling shutter. Rolling shutter describes how modern CMOS sensor chips scan each frame progressively. which is responsible for the Jell-O like appearance of your shaky cell phone videos. For this music video, a motorized rig was built to spin a camera on its x-axis, so that it tumbles backward. Using a voltage dimmer, the motor is brought up to just the right speed so that each frame is scanned in the time that it takes to do a full revolution around. This causes a 360 degree view to be compressed vertically into the frame. The result is a mind-bending effect that is created completely in-camera with no post-production necessary. Dancers shrink, duplicate, and break the laws of physics, while bright lights streak and splinter against darkness, culminating in psychedelic presentation of warped motion and flickering light. Bio: Lee Skinner is a director and media artist from Canada. His interests lie in pushing the technical aspects of modern video to a point where it becomes a critique of the technology itself. Lee also enjoys the absurdism that the music video format allows, frequently depicting bizarre subject matter in familiar settings. His work has been short listed for the Prism Prize, which annually showcases Canada's ten best music videos of the year.
