Music: a dancer gradually becomes a 3D-printed version of herself in Dom&Nic's music video for UK electronic act The Chemical Brothers' track Wide Open (+ movie).

When the time came to create a video to accompany Wide Open ? featuring vocals by Beck ? Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons AKA The Chemical Brothers turned to long-time collaborators Dom&Nic.

"We have been working with The Chemical Brothers for 20 years," said the directors, whose full names are Dominic Hawley and Nic Goffey. "They originally approached us to make a video for Setting Sun in 1996 and we have made eight videos now for them in total."

Like for all of the previous films, the brief was simply to "make a great film for the music".
In this instance, the duo turned to dance as a focal point of the video, but included an unusual twist.

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"We really conceived this video as a dance film," Dom&Nic told Dezeen. "We wanted to make a piece of dance that could only exist on film and couldn't be experienced live."

The clip follows a single dancer as she performs a routine around an empty space, which looks like a disused warehouse and is dotted with concrete columns.

As the camera pans in and out of her body while she moves, her limbs are replaced one-by-one with white latticed versions ? similar to the 3D-printed cast designed for fractu...