Noel Paul directs a characteristically immersive and offbeat promo for American rock band Geese.

The video for Taxes takes place at an intimate gig, with the first thirty seconds or so shot lo-fi on a mobile phone. But then it's all turned on its head, ramping up into a mesmerising fever dream of dancing, fighting and melting faces.

"When Cameron sings 'nail me down', everything changes," explains Paul. "The format morphs from strictly phone footage to a hodgepodge of textures and frame rates.

"The action becomes dislocated from documentary reality, instead taking the form of abstract isolated shots of expressions and gestures being repeated endlessly and maniacally by the people in the crowd. It's like we're inside a contemporary version of some medieval painting of the Damned, writhing and carousing in ecstasy and agony as they are herded towards Hell's gaping maw.

"Our crowd now becomes a vehicle for exploring a cavalcade of human expressions, gestures, and simple actions, boiled down to some kind of fetishized essence by way of filming them in hyperspeed with endlessly repeating manic motion. A simple action repeated over and over again and filmed in this style becomes mesmerizing and absurd and ritualistic."

Brilliantly frantic and executed to perfection, it's a standout visual.