Robyn’s ‘Indestructible’ music video showcases a project that started over two years ago generating dynamic textiles made from liquid, air and vapor. 1.2 kilometres of transparent plumbing tubing was knitted with fishing wire to skin Robyn’s body.

Vitali had previously worked with Robyn on the music videos for “Hang with Me” and “Dancing on My Own”. 

 

For the video, Australian artist Lucy McRae, who makes “body architecture”, designed a special “tube dress” for Robyn to wear. McRae also designed the outfits Robyn wore on the Body Talk album covers. The dress for the video was made up of plastic pipes that were periodically filled with colored fluids and wrapped around Robyn’s body. Robyn recalled that the machine that kept the liquid flowing was “very complicated”. The machine was built by McRae, who had to do it quickly because of the video’s budget. McRae said, “Me and my team had never done anything like this before, the whole project was happening for the first time. The machine was super loud.” The shooting stopped four times due to leaks, and the team had to mop and re-set the technology. The shooting took twenty hours, and by 3 a.m. McRae said that Robyn was wrapped “in a kilometre of tubing draped over her head and body”. She praised Robyn’s stamina throughout the shoot, saying that “there were chaotic moments that could have been potentially disastrous and the entire time Robyn was working with us, smiling, moving when the tubes were stuck and just super happy we were making it happen.” 40 litres of glycerol pumps through over a kilometre of tube, powered by drill pumps that connect to valves releasing air intermittently between the liquid. Gradient colors pulse through the tubes at different speeds, the effect is a living, breathing dynamic skin that traverses the landscape of the body.

 

Due to the complex technology used to for the video, Robyn believed “It looked like ‘MacGyver’ on the set.” She said that the video “[is] very much about [...] giving almost a physical experience of what it feels like to be on a dance floor or fall in love, whether it’s blood or endorphins or other body fluids.” She wanted to make a video about sex, but said that “in a way that wasn’t so clichéd. [...] And [the video] is made to give you a picture of what sex really is, which I think is something that’s very hard to do, because sex is everywhere all the time, but very rarely is it made out to be something real.” The video begins with a reversed scene of a young couple having sex. In cutscenes, Robyn appears with a tube dress with clear liquid flowing through it. When the young woman begins to switch her sex partners, the liquid in the tubes wrapped around Robyn begins to alter colors and flow more quickly. The video ends with Robyn standing alone with black liquid in the tubes.

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Robyn – Indestructible

Artist: Robyn
Direction:
Max Vitali and Nils Ljunggren
Released:
October 28, 2010
Techniques:
Motion Picture and editing
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