Rema's wrong neck of the woods

A dark forest; check. Sinister masked dudes; check. Flash cuts of subliminal shadowy forms and contorted humans moving in an unnerving non-human way; check. This electrifying music video for Rema’s anthemic Ozeba has plenty of horror-style flourishes.

An Academy co-production with Divine Studios, the film was directed by Jackson Lee Forsythe, who has created a thrilling, dystopian visual soundscape to accompany one of the hits from his acclaimed album, Heis.

Drawing from the concept of ‘Ozeba’ – which means ‘problem’ in the Edo language – the film is imbued with a tense undercurrent of trouble brewing as scenes of arboreal strangeness are intercut with abstract flashes from a dark underworld.