“I've always been fascinated by finding the perfect chord progression or a melody that could go on forever,” says Danish electronic wunderkind Taragana Pyjarama, aka Nick Kold Ericksen. “So when you get the feeling of something endless or a constant stasis, it's a great thing.” The lead single on Ericksen’s elegiac EP released by cult New York label True Panther Sounds, “Ariel” is the inspiration for director Lasse Martinussen’s cinematic short. 

Martinussen’s bold, genre-blending music video interprets a real-life Danish-Ghanaian migrant’s story of modern fatherhood. “The struggles he goes through and the mistakes he makes really relate to what I was going through when I made the song,” says Ericksen. 

Award-winning filmmaker Lasse Martinussen has a full roster of work to his name that innately navigates each narrative, including for Nordic bands WhoMadeWho and Reptile Youth, and which leave the viewer questioning whether they’re watching a video, documentary or fiction piece. “I don’t think about whether the music or the film was created one for the other,” he says. “They are part of each other.”