"Cruel Heart"

12 July 2024

3 mins 04s

Cruel Heart

French DJ and producer Petit Biscuit, or Mehdi Benjelloun to his nearest and dearest, gets a textbook Quentin Deronzier promo for 'Cruel Heart'. To say Deronzier flexes his muscles would be an understatement, as he uses all manner of visual pyrotechnics to keep viewers on their toes.

Much of this abstract rave is seen through Benjelloun's eyes, like the club level of a first-person shooter. He gets thrown around a lot and, when combined with other bells and whistles like photogrammetry and strobe lights, you wonder if it was shot with a VR headset in mind.

Deronzier then breaks the fourth wall when the aspect ratio changes and Alana Champion—the woman Benjelloun cannot get out of his head—clambers through the black bars. A few more playful touches like this would have made 'Cruel Heart' a meta-marvel.

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