De Staat Witch Doctor
Alternative · Studio Smack, Floris Kaayk & Torre Florim · 2015 · 7.7M
Alternative · Studio Smack, Floris Kaayk & Torre Florim · 2015 · 7.7M
De Staat – Witch Doctor
2015 · 2010s · · · · Directed by Studio Smack, Floris Kaayk & Torre Florim
‘Witch Doctor’ is the hypnotic new video from the Dutch purveyors of the finest alternative twisted rock, De Staat. Showcasing Torre Florim’s extraordinary vision, it sees the frontman control an army of looming and fearsome army of bare chested men in a cross between fight club and a hypnotised mosh pit. As the crowd circle him, like a preacher man, he deftly controls them with his words and they proceed to aggressively march around him threatening to explode before he commands them further and it erupts in a consuming typhoon-esque circle pit.
Inspired by ritualistic dancing Torre explains; “I discovered several religious dances, in which the dancers move synchronously. I liked that idea. But the video makers had to invent how to create it all. If you have no Hollywood studio behind you, then it’s just a load of work. But the result is very nice. “
Taken from the homeland #2 charting previous album I_CON, he brought in Studio Smack along with Floris Kaayk, a well-known animator who set up the notorious Firestarter by Torre Florim was used in the official trailer for the Playstation 4 game Just Cause 3. The track was of course a huge hit for The Prodigy in 1996 and has lead the band to declare it as the “The best cover ever of one of our songs” and has since had nearly 600k views. No stranger to the world of console games as
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