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Ora Iso: Dead Riot

Shot in an abandoned art-deco location in Jakarta, this music video for industrial duo Ora Iso is packed with creepy choreography. The video marks band singer Kathleen Malay's directorial debut.

She says: "Dead Riot is about trapped souls living in a decaying house. The song itself is about waiting for something to come that never will. I came across this house and realized it was the right place to visualize this feeling - its true occupants are strange, lovely, lonely people. After visiting the location for the first time, I couldn’t sleep due to the feelings of sadness and isolation that followed me home. The lower floor smelled of rust or of blood, and the temperature was oddly cool in the steaming hot city of Jakarta. The air felt as if it was competing for space with something else— crowded with intangible beings, clouds of nostalgia, spirits asking to be remembered, recognized and released. Sometimes it felt menacing, but mostly forlorn; the house was once such a beautiful place, and so these were the emotions I wanted to convey. Haunting and splendid disrepair. The characters in the film are never set free, they’re left to live aimlessly in a timeless zone."

Dead Riot is a track off Ora Iso's album Image Certifies, which dropped on on Regis’ Downwards label in April.