Watch This: Tess Martin's Music Video 'Charlatans'

Music videos are an artform in themselves. Essentially short films, they serve as an excellent showcase for their directors. There have been many fantastic music videos over the years, and one of the latest has just been released.

Seattle musician Mutual Shock has released the official music video to the track Charlatans, created by experimental filmmaker, animator and artist Tess Martin.

In the abstract music video, volatile mixtures of oil, water, and other reactive elements form shifting miniature worlds. Filmed in macro, these unstable chemical landscapes evoke the seduction, distortion, and collapse at the heart of the song.

The video continues Martin's exploration of process-based filmmaking techniques and practical visual experimentation. Through chemical reactions, fluid movement and magnified textures,  the work transforms microscopic interactions into immersive emotional environments. The film's shifting miniature world reflects the song's themes of seduction, distortion and collapse.

Mutual Shock is the moniker of Seattle-based musician Dan Powers. He splices synthpop with coldwave, soldering analogue synths to drum-machines until they spark. His influences include Black Marble and Molchat Doma to Nine Inch Nails and Cabaret Voltaire. 

"Charlatans" was written and recorded by Dan Powers, with drums performed and recorded by Max Zara Bernstein. The track was produced by Matt Bayles and mastered by Rachel Field of Resonant Mastering.

Tess Martin is an award-winning American-born, Rotterdam-based artist and filmmaker. Her past works include the acclaimed shorts How Now, House?, Ginevra and Still Life With Woman, Tea and Letter, some of which have also been turned into art installations. You can find out more about Tess here.