Plattenbau - Celebration (Official Music Video)

“’Celebration’ is about dancing out the crooked shapes of generational trauma and returning to a space of communion and ceremony,” says Plattenbau’s Lewis Lloyd. This video was shot on the edge of the Sahara desert in sweltering midday sunshine. We wanted to go to a hostile environment, devoid of human life to portray the spiritual poverty that we have, especially in the west, from this over-emphasis on the intelligence of the thinking mind. Coming out of this space, we wanted to recreate the feeling of reconnecting to the body and to the feeling of aliveness, despite all the chaos and trash of the external world. It felt fitting for this climax of communion and good times to take outtakes from our shows supporting A Place To Bury Strangers at Bowery Ballroom in New York City and SO36 in Berlin. Credits: Shot by Anna Kraft Edited by Lewis Lloyd Intro shot by Sebastian Steins Berlin’s dark vapor-punk pioneers Plattenbau choose happiness on “Celebration,” out July 11. The first si