A troubled kid sees and experiences rays of blinding light, made possible in production via a practical process of hand-tracing and laser-cutting individual frames onto black card stock to create shape mattes, that then had light and haze through shot through them before laying it back over the footage.
What starts (and ends) as a sweet solo ballad on a rooftop, becomes something closer to a choreographed extravaganza in this video for Billie Eilish's musical partner/brother, Finneas.
A rollerskating fantasia that glides into a VFX wonderland. Or, perhaps better described as an army of hot roller skaters folded into a hell fractal vortex of human limbs.
