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Hot Spot: Noah Harris

Noah Harris propels us into the eye of a golden storm of his own conception in this psychedelic and elemental promo for Julio Bashmore’s Peppermint.

Is it a stop-frame animated exploration of evolution and the fall of man influenced by the progression of House Music over the decades, or purely a whirlwind of sex, drugs and the religion of rave? We’ll leave that to you to decide.

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