Ahead of the digital release of Murcof’s spectacular double album The Alias Sessions on Friday (May 21st), watch the new video for ‘Fire Thief’. The work of Christophe Thockler, the video is set in a meticulously constructed model of the theatre where the dance performances birthing the music on the album took place.

“When Murcof presented his new project to me, the result of a collaboration with the Alias Dance Company, he showed me the performance where dancers were falling and rising, again and again,” Thockler explains. “I was mesmerized by this kind of strange and hypnotic choreography, and I immediately thought about how hard the performance would have been for the dancers – disorientating, seeing the seats of the theatre, rising and falling as they are performing. The point of view of the dancers became the main concept, and we thought we could make a small theatre to imitate this movement.”

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