Mattiel - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun

Mattiel’s Double Cover EP, is out now on ATO Records and Heavenly Recordings. Order Double Cover 7“ here: “In the video for “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun,” we hoped to capture the energy of the song in our own way. The circular shots are a bit of a nod to the Beastie’s love for using a fisheye lens in so many of their videos. A sense of ‘dark psychedelia’ also comes through in the distorted, stretchy elements. For the shots of Jonah, we used this old broadcast camera (lent to us by Zach Pyles - Thank you Zach!). So those parts were recorded onto a VHS tape and played back on a monitor and digitized. All the digital parts were done on my Canon 5D Mk II, so the whole thing was a pretty barebones setup without any fancy equipment. We shot this during a pandemic, and we’re all still waist deep in global crisis - so I feel grateful that we were able to get good results during a time where video production can be especially challenging.” Video credits: