Synopsis
A quiet city street gradually turns into a surreal loop of impossible movement. Cyclists, pedestrians, cars, televisions, and fragments of the urban landscape repeat, fold into one another, and travel across walls, ceilings, and the frame itself. As the layers multiply, ordinary street footage becomes a hypnotic maze in which perspective and gravity no longer apply. The video keeps escalating from recognizable live action into a dense, dreamlike visual pattern, ending without clearly restoring the viewer to reality.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was released in December 2010, ahead of the "We Got More / Moving Glowstream" remix EP, which Ninja Tune issued on May 16, 2011.
- Its source material was ordinary live-action footage of a New York City street. The transformation comes from repeated, mirrored, and composited fragments rather than from a conventional narrative or elaborate set.
- The production process involved experimenting with footage that had not yet been edited. The finished piece turns everyday images into recursive patterns, a visual method strongly associated with the surreal online animation style of the period.
- Additional footage of Eskmo was supplied by Trevor Traynor and Dugan O'Neal.
- Contemporary coverage highlighted the video's dream logic and its increasingly tangled perspective, with some reviewers comparing its visual disorientation to the reality-bending structure of "Inception."
- Ninja Tune later issued a separate video treatment for the Kilon TeK remix. That version reworked the original visual concept rather than presenting a wholly unrelated clip.
- The video's success helped make it one of the more widely circulated visual pieces associated with Eskmo's self-titled Ninja Tune album.