Lights – Portal

This song was positioned as the interlude of Lights’ studio album, Little Machines. Originally not slated to have a video, we were contacted by UMC and Lights’ management team after producing other successful work for the label. Without grant funding, we were asked what we could do with a shoestring budget. Our answer was to pitch a simple idea: a naturally-lit project with a few easy, but compelling setups; a slow, methodical journey towards a mysterious end – thematically matching the Interlude. With a crew of only two, the entire project was shot in one afternoon, and edited by the following week. UMC was so pleased with the result that the video was submitted to the Juno awards for consideration, and we were invited to shoot a second project with Lights for the same album.