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A Gender-Bending Music Video Gets Sexy With Holes in All the Right Places

Go behind the scenes of an abstract love-making session filmed by Paul Trillo shot for DJ Pone’s track 'Heart Swing.'
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What is sex but a temporary assembly of bodies and their parts? Filmmaker Paul Trillo explores this in abstract detail in his highly surreal and erotic music video for DJ Pone’s track “Heart Swing (feat. Jaw).” Slowly, and with increasing frequency, the body parts of two lovers coalesce as they explore touch.

“The song is clearly about longing for someone, needing someone to make you feel stronger,” Trillo tells The Creators Project. “Whether it's lust or true love. It's the kind of love from someone that makes the rest of the world disappear.”

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Trillo knew the video had to be sensual, but he wasn’t interested in the love-making of a softcore music video. He wanted it all to be much more implied.

“I began framing this in the light of a one night stand, where you quickly reveal yourself in a very vulnerable way to a virtual stranger,” Trillo explains. “It's sort of bizarre how quickly people can jump from not knowing one another to becoming incredibly intimate. That's when the concept started to crystallize for me.”

“The more they explore one another, the more hidden body parts begin to show,” he adds. “They eventually ‘get romantic’ and become one. I wanted to create this perception that while the man and woman are having sex, the gender lines become blurry.”

Viewers will be unable to distinguish the male from female body parts, says Trillo. He believes this “removes the sex from the sex,” instead showing people fusing together and certain moment in time before breaking away, presumably never to see each other again.

To create the erotic interactions between the sexes, Trillo outfitted dancers Tyler Phillips and Emily Terndrup in green screen suits. As they shot throughout the day, the team cut more holes in the suits.

“The different parts of the body were chosen so that they were both recognizable and undefined,” Trillo says. “It also needed to be in the right places that move with the body without having the suit fall apart. I wanted it to be revealing without being sexy.”

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