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Strapping Fireworks to Breakdancers in the Name of Art, With Thrilliam Angels

The Latgalian artist has a new video out, directed by Kai Ghattaura, and presented by VICE. We had a chat about the dangers of pyrotechnics.

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What do hoverboards, breakdancers, health and safety violations, and Latvia have in common? They all feature in the new Thrilliam Angels video, “Together Forever”!

Filmed over the course of two days in London this summer, the video for the song—which is a collaboration with David Arms Deal, Frost Children, and vrde—drops today. We caught up with Thrilliam and director / fashion designer / VICE contributor Kai Ghattaura to talk about rolling down hills and making art during a celestial event.

VICE: Some of this was filmed during an eclipse. The eclipse didn’t make the final cut. But did it spiritually influence the video?Thrilliam: Maybe not spiritually, but rather physically ’cause it literally seemed like there was a “Paris” filter on reality.Kai: We couldn’t point the camera at the sun because it would’ve melted the lens. So the eclipse itself didn’t make it into the video. But the bright, sunset shots in the first half were filmed right at the peak, around 7PM. We were in a public park with 15 people in costume, so honestly I think we were more of a spectacle than the........

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