In the past year, Peter Marsden—Scottish filmmaker and co-founder of the creative studio born out of the LuckyMe record label—has directed acclaimed music videos for rap renegades Lunice, Rustie and Cashmere Cat. An ongoing visual collaboration with Claude Speeed, the avant-garde composer of epic, droney electronics, sees the director explore Gotham at nightfall.

"'Some Other Guy' was shot over three days and nights in New York during a stop-over on my way back from shooting Hudson Mohawke in LA. It was all shot alone following a shot-plan and structure I had floating around in the back of my mind; the city can be a dramatic place at 3am when you’ve got this classical drone track on loop in your headphones. For all the times I’ve shot in New York, I’ve found it’s a city with amazing confidence, like it knows it’s being photographed. The construction workers in front of the jungle backdrops didn’t flinch while I filmed them working the overnight shift, they were all so comfortable with it. I just don’t think you can do that anywhere else. 

“The Claude Speeed album title My Skeleton is a reference to the systems and structures of society, economy and politics. The film is like an archaeological document from a modern archive, showing the city in portrait as a living organism. Working from music so rich in emotion, the film became a blueprint for a much larger project that was never expanded upon. I think it is interesting in this raw form as a document of those three days. Sometimes in a gallery I find the artists sketchbooks more interesting than the finished works.”

Check back tomorrow for a Directors' Cut from Luca Guadagnino.