“A kaleidoscope is a cylinder with mirrors containing loose, colored objects such as beads or pebbles and bits of glass. As the viewer looks into one end, light entering the other creates a colorful pattern, due to the reflection off of the mirrors.” The name “kaleidoscope” is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός (kalos), “beautiful, beauty”, εἶδος (eidos), “that which is seen: form, shape” and σκοπέω (skopeō), “to look to, to examine”, hence “observer of beautiful forms.”
 
I’m not a big fan of Beni‘s music, but this video clip has actually very interesting parts.
 
The kaleidoscope is what makes this video so memorable, but in fact it only serves to enhance the beauty of the human body used as a screen for projections of landscapes between Joshua Tree and Death Valley. This video was directed by Jared Eberhardt who said “I wanted it all to be all about the bodies and the projected abstract shapes and colors. I let the dancers, choreography and the scenery be the set design. Most of the effects are projections and are in-camera, which I’m familiar with, but the idea of using one day’s shoot to influence the next days shoot was really a fun and new way to work. For each shoot I started with a really details plan and by the second shot it all went out the window.”
 
For this music video, Ederhardt was inspired by a remarkable passage from the book Blood Meridian saying “A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery…all the horsemen’s faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning”.
The projection creates an aesthetic carefully. According to the director, it wasn’t a priority, but works as a bridge between filming in the desert and studio work, giving coherence to the video.