[Music Video] Time Stretches Across Trippy Landscapes in Koda's "Angel"

Experiencing waking reality in sequential, linear time is a blessing and a curse: it's great for generally handling the day-to-day details of three-dimensional existence, but it doesn't really help us understand the relativity of time and space. With the isolated moments of still photography, these setbacks are only magnified.

Which seems to be why London-based artist Morgan Beringer has strung together a bunch of stills and stretched them through time for musician Koda's “Angel.” Using various video editing techniques, Beringer stretches several shots of landscapes, oceans. and skies until they all become a sort of temporal, flowing plasma of beautiful colors and rippling patterns.

Koda - Angel from Morgan on Vimeo.

The effect, which Beringer has honed through dozens of experimental videos, is psychedelic. Not simply because the video mimics the visual hallucinations of vibrant color and movement, but because notions of time and space are blurred beyond recognition into some unknown universal substance.

Canvas prints of stills from the video are available here. Click here to see more of Morgan’s work.

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