The new “Perfect Time” music video for Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros is directed by Miniac Films’ Benjamin Kutsko and created using Google Deep Dream. Like a feverish night’s imaginings, the video marries darkness and light in a surreal conjuring that explores the artistic process. “Perfect Time” was filmed at Los Angeles’ legendary United Recording Studio in which frontman Alex Ebert Stewart channels vintage crooners while traveling through time and space, fantasy and reality, all in Perfect Time.

Deep Dream was invented to help scientists and engineers to see what a deep neural network is seeing when it is looking in a given image. The algorithm has become a new form of psychedelic and abstract art, as harnessed in “Perfect Time.” Director Benjamin Kutsko, who previously collaborated with The Magnetic Zeros on the music video “Life is Hard” explains: “We wanted to explore the creative process that is recording an album or a song or making art or movies. You can really get lost in it; it takes over every moment. Like working late at night creating these visuals, it’s a computer dream.”

View more of Benjamin Kutsko’s work at http://www.miniacfilms.com/archives/benjamin-kutsko.

Artist: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

“Perfect Time” from the new release PersonA: iTunes: https://smarturl.it/PersonAiTunes

Label: Community Music

Production Company: Miniac Films

Directed by Benjamin Kutsko

Cinematography by Jordan Levy

Camera Operator Austin Ahlborg

Colorist Derek Strick