Hot vid for Hot Chip Jan 2010

Roel Wouters has devised a unique concept for Hot Chip’s latest single, “One Life Stand”. Roel created an ‘experimental’ environment in which the band were left alone to explore and develop their own music video.

With the rest crew closed off from the set, the band became director, cameraman and even choreographer to create a promo that is nothing but ‘Hot Chip’.

The band had a minimal set-up to play with of just one fixed camera, one handycam and their instruments. A silver sphere was also suspended in the middle of the room (inspired by Roel’s daily gaze into his silversphere teapot!) giving the band further creative scope to experiment with different perspectives. The constant revolutions of the band, the sphere and the cameras moving around each other all work to create a surreal and almost trippy experience for the viewer.