Synopsis

The video for dEUS' "Slow" sets two contrasting perspectives against each other. In one half of the split screen, the band performs the hypnotic, slow-building track. The other follows five young dancers as they move through city streets with an unusual, playful physicality. The parallel images gradually draw closer together, reflecting the song's shifting viewpoints and the title of the album, Vantage Point. The two visual worlds finally converge inside the band's Vantage Point studio.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Slow" features guest vocals from Karin Dreijer Andersson, then best known as one half of the Swedish electronic duo The Knife.

• Dreijer Andersson did not want to appear in the video. She suggested using a transvestite instead, but Tom Barman had already used that idea in an earlier clip.

• The central performer was 13 years old at the time. Two other girls also appear as dancers, including one who was 11.

• The split-screen structure was designed around the idea of showing two viewpoints at once, a visual concept that echoes the album title Vantage Point.

• The band and the dancers remain visually separate for most of the clip before both sides meet in dEUS' own Vantage Point studio.

• The video accompanied the second single from Vantage Point, following "The Architect."