Synopsis
A woman moves through a stark black-and-white world where her body is repeatedly fragmented, mirrored, stretched, and rearranged into shifting geometric patterns. Her gestures appear to trigger visual echoes, turning dance movements into rhythmic compositions that pulse and multiply with the track. Rather than following a conventional narrative, the video translates C2C's turntable-driven sound into an abstract performance piece, using symmetry, repetition, and rapid transformations to make the image feel sampled, edited, and remixed in real time.
Factoids & Trivia
- The visual concept was built around the idea of treating filmed movement like a DJ treats sound: organic images were sampled, cut apart, manipulated in time, and recombined into geometric forms.
- The video was made for "Arcades," a track from C2C's debut album "Tetra," which was released on September 3, 2012.
- Charlotte Poutrel appears as the performer at the center of the visual treatment. Her movements provide the raw material for the video's mirrored and multiplied imagery.
- The mostly monochrome presentation emphasizes shape, motion, and rhythm rather than color or narrative detail.
- Baptiste Chesnais handled the cinematography, while the visual effects and graphic design were developed by Remi Paoli.
- The video's editing language reflects C2C's background as a championship turntablist crew: gestures are repeated, chopped, layered, and reassembled much like breaks and samples in a scratch routine.
- "Arcades" was released during the promotional campaign for "Tetra," shortly before the album established C2C as a major French electronic act beyond the competitive DJ scene.