Tiesto • Ecstasy
MUSIC VIDEO
LA Production company ARE hired me to direct a series of videos for superstar DJ Tiesto, for use on-screen during his shows, both intimate club gigs (such as Hakkasan Las Vegas, where my work premiered) and later summer festival and arena shows.
The first piece we tackled was a multi-song cycle of his show that we called ‘ECSTASY.’ I created a series of 4 song-length pieces that follow three hip club-goers that are transported into a subterranean world, searching for the source of the music and the beautiful, colorful video glitches flickering through the environment. They find the source and become one with the glitches…
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