After a seven year hiatus, the Icelandic ambient/experimental duo Kiasmos (that's Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen) has returned with a hauntingly beautiful new music video for Flown directed by Greg Barnes.  

The stark black-and-white visuals follow a solitary elderly man living an isolated existence in a windswept coastal dwelling. Nearing the end of his life, the man (played by Robert Goodman) is obsessed with trying to become airborne - represented by motifs of birds and a strange symbol he constantly looks for.

Beautifully shot by DoP Matthew Wilson, the cinematography casts the weathered protagonist in hazy chiaroscuro lighting, hinting at deeper spiritual truths lurking beneath his sole existence among the rugged terrain. Sweeping shots of the beach and roiling surf conjure both loneliness and possibilities of liberation.

Above all, this is superbly well-crafted visual storytelling by Greg Barnes for Kiasmos's first music since 2017's Renaissance LP. The imagery forms a powerful and poetic visual accompaniment to Kiasmos' exploratory brand of cinematic, texture-rich ambient/experimental electronics.