Synopsis

Set against a stark, black-and-white Berlin backdrop, "Seduction" plays like a sinister film noir rather than a conventional dance video. A charged encounter involving desire, fetish, fear, and obsession gradually slips beyond emotional control, turning attraction into something threatening and psychologically unstable. With sparse dialogue and a deliberately slow pace, the nine-minute film uses shadowy interiors, stark compositions, and dreamlike imagery to create an atmosphere of love, death, and madness around Marcel Dettmann's haunting collaboration with Emika.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Seduction" was presented as a nine-minute short film accompanying the track, an unusually ambitious format for an electronic music release.

• The song is a semi-ambient departure from Marcel Dettmann's harder techno associations, with Emika's vocals providing much of its eerie emotional pull.

• The track appeared on Dettmann's album "Dettmann II" and was also issued through Ostgut Ton as part of the "Seduction" EP in 2014.

• The project began during a holiday shared by the Dettmann and Ellerman families. Dettmann played Parker Ellerman the album he was working on, and the director immediately heard "Seduction" as music that already resembled a film score.

• The film was made with very little dialogue. Dettmann said the video version was extended by roughly two minutes, creating a deliberately patient structure that gives the mood and imagery room to develop.

• Ellerman described the angel as having an additional meaning beneath the main story, but intentionally avoided explaining every element of the film.

• The visual approach was compared with classic film noir and the cinema of Fritz Lang, particularly in its use of monochrome photography, oppressive spaces, and stark contrasts between light and shadow.

• The principal cast includes Cleo von Adelsheim, Sven Gerhardt, and Stefano Cassetti.