Brooklyn Building Transforms Into a Huge Equalizer

A sleek office building might not be the obvious setting for a Nine Inch Nails music video. But it works in a weirdly glorious way, as demonstrated in this short film by Paris-based director Supralude.

For his story of a Brooklyn tower lit up by pulsing, alien flashes, called "That Night in Williamsburg," the artist has chosen a contemplative, almost Philip Glassian tune from NIN's Ghosts project. Windows in the structure blaze with a peacock palette of colors, illuminating worker drones going about their duties in frenetic time lapse. What begins as a seemingly random light show soon develops form as the bass line kicks in: The entire facade of the building, as well as another building across the street, is functioning as an immense graphic equalizer synced to the music.