Synopsis
Set in the feverish aftermath of a Valencian night out, "After" unfolds as a deliberately slow-motion vision of collective disorientation. Bodies, gestures and fragments of the party world seem suspended between celebration and collapse, turning the aftermath into a surreal, hypnotic space. The video favors mood over a conventional storyline, stretching ordinary nightlife into something strange, decadent and almost hallucinatory. Its measured pace clashes with the song's driving electronic energy, creating an unsettling portrait of exhaustion, excess and post-party delirium.
Factoids & Trivia
- "After" was chosen to introduce SIESTA!'s debut album, "Terroruterino", released in 2013 through Sonido Muchacho, Giradiscos and La Cupula del Trueno.
- The video was described in contemporary coverage as a technically polished, deliberately bizarre piece built around slow-motion imagery.
- Its concept plays on the mythology surrounding Valencian after-hours parties, treating the after both as a literal location and as a psychologically altered state.
- The clip features Carlos Cebrian, Inaki Antuñano and Mariam Celaya.
- "After" is the final track on "Terroruterino", whose dark, danceable mixture of electronic music, krautrock, psychedelia and punk is reflected in the video's uneasy, trance-like atmosphere.
- SIESTA! presented themselves as "two guys, many machines and too many pretensions," a description that fits the video's playful collision of DIY attitude, electronic experimentation and surreal imagery.