The Swedish-born filmmaker recalls filming his dancers sans sound:

“I hesitated when shooting dancers as I worried people would think of this as a dance film; I just see it as these characters that are expressing their pain, their feelings and their struggle with the use of body movement. They all danced to no music, in silence; I didn't want to clutter their movement with beats and rhythm.

"I was always going to use music for the film, but when you do a music video the music is the center of the shoot; you cue playback and everything else after that happens in a domino effect. For this, music was scored especially by composer Benjamien Lycke afterwards, and performed by a 15-band orchestra afterwards.”