Bicep’s avian heist

Director Alex Takács had teamed up with music artist Bicep to launch this dynamic and dystopian music video through ProdCo for the electronic duo’s song, Gas.

Loosely inspired by a real-life heist in Brussels, where a gang of thieves stole an elite racing pigeon worth over a million dollars, the film follows a similar group who plot to steal a bio-drone; a living pigeon augmented with implants that allow a human handler to control the bird in flight.  

After the heist, a young member of the group takes the bird on a joyride, experiencing the city anew through the eyes of one of its most misunderstood and maligned inhabitants. 

The visual approach sees cinematic slow-motion beauty punctured by degraded CCTV-like surveillance. These digital distortions become part of the storytelling language, as visual signals get filtered through both avian and human biology.