Some time ago, New-Zealand-born musician/filmmaker Broad Oak had a particularly vivid and disturbing dream. "I was dead and buried in the ground, yet somehow conscious," he says. "Lying there in complete darkness, I could feel worms and insects devouring my flesh and crawling through my eye sockets." The next day he was inspired by the experience to record a piece of music but only finished it in 2021 while recovering from covid in Berlin. "Although I didn't have a severe case, it led to me contemplating my own mortality so it felt appropriate to come back to this piece and finally finish it."

The mesmerising animated video is a collaboration with an AI called WZRD and represents the cyclic and transformative nature of life and matter from cells to galaxies. The music for Worms Ate My Flesh was inspired by a very intense dream I had and so collaborating with WZRD AI seemed like a perfect match. The hallucinatory abstract morphing images work beautifully with the music in creating a surreal dreamlike state. The dream itself began as a nightmare about my own death but ended in acceptance and a certain peace. I tried to capture that journey in the progression of this video from chaos and decay to unity.