Oscar Hudson has created a video for producer Gilligan Moss's distinctively skewed pop ode Choreograph that follows a tried-and-tested theme of exactly matching specific visuals to music elements, but then adds his own clever twist.

Repeated moves by family members around a young man about to tuck into breakfast would obviously be an intensive VFX job in normal circumstances. But closer inspection reveals this scenario was achieved for real, in-camera.

Not surprisingly, this required formidable organisation, including, as Oscar Hudson explains below, finding several sets of twins – and breaking lots of eggs. In the process he's created a sublime but eery vision of chaos - a time loop in which people do the same thing over and over, but continue to age as normal...

Is Oscar trying to tell us something?  

OSCAR HUDSON:

"This film was massively inspired by Zbigniew Rybszynski’s classic animation ‘Tango’. I took the endless repetition from that film and tried to imagine what would happen if you transplanted those eternal cycles into a world where time still moves on as normal- so eggs accumulate, carpets wear through and people get old.

"On a practical level I wanted to try to achieve the characters repeating cycles in camera and without any compositing in post. So we built a set, hired lots of twins and choreographed all the action very precisely. I always like to do things in camera where possible, I really think it comes through in the final film - you just can’t fake the little imperfections that make something feel real.

"But the other big reason I avoid VFX is that I simply never learnt how to do them! I always want to be able to wrap my head around the mechanics of how we’ll achieve an effect and so these manual, set based tricks always really interest me."