‘31-12-2016’ by Indigo Pastel | “Altered State Music Video”

Uncategorized October 1, 2021

‘31-12-2016’ by Indigo Pastel | “Altered State Music Video”

Exclusive video premiere by Rotterdam based band Indigo Pastel.


Influenced by these turbulent times, but mostly guided by higher consciousness intuition, they decided to dedicate a video to harmony, acceptance, letting go and leaving the realm of fear and scarcity. Not only in the visual narrative, but also in the creative approach.

 

“There’s lots of trouble in the world, and in my opinion mainly because of widespread unconsciousness, and it feels like if no one speaks up it’s impossible to live freely, happy, healthy, equally. Troubles are made, it’s not a matter of solving them, but no longer creating them. If everyone would surrender to the moment, accepting that it is only you who has to take care of your own troubles and never somebody else, not blaming but taking responsibility for your own life and actions, accepting that you attract whatever you believe to be true, everything would be much more harmonious. And that’s why we chose this approach and created this slightly psychotic video clip that shows a group of youngsters, seemingly in paradise, getting more and more agitated by what happens around them, only to finally realise the only troubles existing is within themselves. Eventually they realise their ego is something to burn in a hot fire, and accept there is no need for separation, that they are complete, home, whole and one with each other and their surroundings. The way we integrated this in our working process? Most of the video was shot on 8mm film, which meant not knowing if anything actually worked until it was developed in a lab. To make things worse, our cameras from the 1970’s, were half-broken with jamming motors and fungus in our lenses. We had only 2 days for all our shots, and didn’t take safeties when we were unsure (most of the time). And if you think that’s a crazy approach, to make things worse we added a lot of (wild) animals in the mix! One of the big don’ts in filmmaking! Since you can barely control them. Good! Just being present. Not only did it stay a big surprise if any of these scenes/images were shot appropriately. We shot all the band members’ reactions to the animals a day before we even knew what these animals would eventually do. Stress factors and fear potential overload. Whose fault would it be if it wasn’t meeting expectations? Expectations… we gave ourselves over to the process, and totally let go. And how could we not, in our 2 weeks of pre-production everything magically fell into place with a cherry on top when film Costume designer Charlotte Willems (who only recently did costumes for Brian DePalma’s latest film) agreed on doing our full wardrobe!

It was pure magic, and how? Mainly by letting go! Accepting nothing can go wrong if you don’t create any troubles. When you consider yourself equal! Fully accept yourself and the ongoing circumstances.” Marnix Ruben, director


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Headline photo: Indigo Pastel by Jeremy Broere

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