"Raining On Your Pillow" DIIV

For the final installment of the “Frog In Boiling Water'' album release, DIIV has created a conceptual film in the guise of a music video for the single “Raining On Your Pillow.” The band collaborated with experimental film directing team, TRLLM (Jak Ritger & K8 Howl) and visionary fine artist, Harry Gould Harvey IV. Together, the group translated the songs themes of military desertion, desire for solace and challenging one’s ideology into an abstract collage of high-speed videography and hand-drawings.

The film picks up threads from the ongoing saga of subterfuge established by legendary shoegaze band, DIIV’s latest album "Frog In Boiling Water" release: Soul-Net, the evil corporation that the band has partnered with has created a secret hyper-advanced AI named S.E.P.I.A. or Spiritual Enhancement Protocol & Intelligent Augmentation. The S.E.P.I.A. program was shut down abruptly but many believe that it has escaped its hardware and roams the world.

“Raining on Your Pillow” is the last known transmission from S.E.P.I.A. We are put into its hyper-speed POV (which appears as ultra-slomo) as it hunts for DIIV who have now defected from Soul-Net and joined with the protest group named Freedom In A Boundless World (F.I.B.W). We watch as S.E.P.I.A. discovers “The Architect” played by Harry Gould Harvey IV and absorbs his thoughts. His drawings infect the system opening up divergent pathways.

As the film progresses, we traverse the strange landscape of contemporary life. The rare 2005 handheld high-speed camera used to capture these scenes unveils hidden moiré patterns beneath architecture and nature. The band hides out behind flickering TVs. The textures and rhythms of the song echo through highways, rivers, battleships, textiles, corridors, birds and planes.

The video concludes with an ominous yet hopeful image: S.E.P.I.A. disappears into a flickering night light, full of all the complex and contradictory images that make modern life so confusing. But, with the understanding that by living with the mess, looking beneath or in-between, we can begin to uncover the cognitive maps that hold together our existence.

--- Short Version ---

Cult shoegaze four-piece, DIIV has defected from their evil Soul-Net brand partnership. This is last known transmission of an omnipotent surveillance entity as it becomes infected by symbols and roams a surreal post-digital landscape in flow-mode. A collaboration between experimental music video directors, TRLLM and visionary fine-artist, Harry Gould Harvey IV.