Synopsis

Oi Va Voi perform in a shifting visual world where recognizable human forms, instruments and spaces repeatedly break apart into horizontal strips. The images seem to dissolve, slide and reassemble in time with the song, turning the band performance into a fluid stop-motion collage. Faces and bodies remain identifiable only briefly before being fragmented again, creating an impression of movement, instability and constant transformation. The simple performance setup becomes increasingly abstract as the shredded-image technique takes over the frame.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was made using a physical paper-shredding process rather than a conventional digital effect. Every third frame of the footage was printed, shredded and then filmed again.

• The shredded strips were combined with adjacent frames, with the material shot three times using different stripe configurations. This produced the video's distinctive horizontal distortion and flowing motion.

• The technique combines stop motion, pixilation and live-action footage. Despite its handmade appearance, the result stays closely synchronized with the band's performance.

• The production was completed in approximately one month. The process required the creators to invent a workable system for capturing, printing, shredding and re-photographing the images.

• "Everytime" was released in 2009 and appeared on Oi Va Voi's album "Travelling the Face of the Globe." The official video was published online in April 2009.

• The video became one of the most recognizable early examples of a music clip built around shredded paper. It also received the creators' first Vimeo Staff Pick and helped bring wider attention to their later animation work.