Sandra Kolstad’s new music video features cyborg horses

For most, an epic love tale by an acclaimed director, shot in the beautiful Norwegian landscape would serve as a fitting arrangement for a music video that envisions the intricacies and pitfalls of falling in and out of love. But Sandra Kolstad is not most. Enter cyborg horses.

“Catch-22”, the well received, latest single from her album, Burning Love, really spoke to director Haakon Mathisen (Bendkik) in that it tells about a dysfunctional relationship and the different stages it falls through.  He envisioned this story being told through the music and its main protagonist horses, who devolve into part machine by the end.“The cyborg horses are a metaphor of love that once was good, but that has moved into darkness. The video is about the inner struggles when you realise that a relationship is broken beyond repair, and you fight to regain the feel of intimate loving touch as it once were. The core of the film lies in the emotional distance created by technology and in the longing for intimate touch and true love.

And of course, for me, it’s also a commentary on how greedy app technology fucks us up emotionally every day.”While the process wasn’t without its difficulties (the shoot had to be postponed when the horses were unable to perform due to ice and weather conditions last winter), the team stood behind the concept 100% and never considered compromising on the vision. “This was one of these projects where everyone pushed themselves to make the film what it is. It is a concept that if it was scaled or limited, it would simply not work” – Jonas Grimeland, producer (Hkeem, Wroldsen)The final product speaks for itself. Captivating and original, the music video provides an apt vision for the themes that Kolstad establishes in “Catch-22”