Palina in Phase

You always knew Olli Schulz would work with Palina Rojinski eventually. She’s Germany’s most visible pop-culture presence, the kind of person who shows up everywhere because everyone wants her to, so it was only a matter of time before he made a move. The video for Phase features her, along with Donnie O’Sullivan, photographer Oliver Rath, and someone with the most gloriously unpronounceable German name: Gisbert Wilhelm Enno Freiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen.

Olli probably just wanted something simple with her, but these things expand. You get more people, more ideas, more whatever. By the time you’re done you’ve got this crowded little world in the frame, all these faces existing in the same three minutes. There’s something fitting about calling a song Phase—everyone passes through.