Interview: VTSS & Actual Objects

LA-based studio Actual Objects on how they suspended reality in their collaboration with electronic musician VTSS.In the opening scene for VTSS’sNotoriously Fastmusic video, a lone motorcyclist speeds around a bend on the edge of a dark forest. As night falls, the rider blends in with the looming sky above and the asphalt that lines the road below. The unknown biker journeys on, blazing through a green-lit vortex-like underground tunnel that blurs into the background as the biker gains speed, clearly impatient to reach their destination. Suddenly the video cuts to a flash of scenes featuring a lone, menacing woman, bathed in red and drenched in darkness, before cutting to a deserted, hazy, black rock beach. The lone woman appears again, like a sinister premonition somewhere in the distance. She stands waiting upon the rocky shore, her minatory gaze searching for something beyond the murky horizon, fixated on watching the waves break before the tide retreats. And there she waits, antici...