Layers of abstract imagery reference the interwar heyday of experimental filmmaking in the video for Megan Wyler’s “Through the Noise,” directed by UK-based American artist Margaret Salmon. Taken from Wyler’s debut album of the same name produced by maverick British folk producer Adem Ilhan, the song was co-written with composer and producer Peter Raeburn, who has scored multiple features by Jonathan Glazer and Lars von Trier. It reflects, says Wyler, “the moment when a relationship is fractured and there’s an inability to see or hear each other—but then somehow, if you’re lucky, a crack appears and you can find your way back.” Salmon has exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Berlin Biennale and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and has previously worked with British experimentalist and Björk collaborator Matthew Herbert. “I was struck by the tense, complex simplicity of the song,” she says, “and by the refined femininity of the vocals and lyrics, which seem both fragile and empowered.” Colorado-born Wyler sent Salmon clips of works by Man Ray and Maya Deren as references, while the artist channeled the layered montage work of the French photographer Maurice Tabard, using a hand-cranked Bolex H16 and various Swiss-made, vintage Kern lenses. “I’m a devotee of all moving image but I adore film,” she says. “I find it exciting and precious and limited and expansive all at once.”