Hangover [Director’s Cut]
Role • Director, Editor
Client • Charlotte Rose Benjamin, prev. Electric Lady Records.
Hangover [Director’s Cut] (2025) directed, animated and edited by Chloé Desaulles for Charlotte Rose Benjamin's sophomore album 'Moth Mouth.'
The music video merges experimental filmmaking techniques, handcrafted and assembled with innovations in 3D capture, machine learning, live action and analog sets, creating a liminal space between tangible and virtual.
It was awarded Gold for Best Music Video at the Dallas International Film Festival.
'Hangover's' world exists between aesthetic languages, merging photogrammetry, gaussian splatting, and custom machine learning with tangible set design and green screen. Physical environmental cutouts and tactile furniture elements designed by artist Katy Brett, interact with digitally modeled environments and software-painted textures, blurring boundaries between fabrication methods and typically incongruous visual languages.
As the artist navigates these threshold spaces, she embodies the cyclical nature of grief: memory dissolving into reality, heartbreak transforming into release. The work, playing with the individual textures of physical and analog media, captures Benjamin caught in an eternal seasonal and environmental cycle, a pendulum swinging between physical reality and digital ethereality, until she is eventually graced with her own release.
’HANGOVER’ WAS AWARDED GOLD AT THE DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN 2025
Utilizing innovations in photogrammetry technology and gaussian splatting, Charlotte Rose Benjamin's sets were assembled both physically through environmental cutouts and material furniture elements, as well as digitally through 3D modeling, custom machine learning, and painted in-software.
As the artist navigates these threshold spaces, she embodies the cyclical nature of grief: memory dissolving into reality, heartbreak transforming into release. The work, playing with the individual textures of physical and analog media, captures Benjamin caught in an eternal seasonal and environmental cycle—a pendulum swinging between physical reality and digital ethereality, until she is eventually graced with her own release.
︎TEAM
Color by Julius Gutierrez
Furniture by Katy Brett
Graphics by Faith Kim
Wardrobe by Chloe Felopulos
Wardrobe sourcing at Allison’s Archive
Lighting consulting by Jacob Wesson
︎PRESS
Girls in Film
Promonews
Indie Eye
Bogota Music Video Festival
Dallas International Film Festival (Gold Winner)
Video Art and Experimental Film Festival
Venezia Short Film Festival