Winner “Most Bizaare”, Berlin Music Video Awards 2016

In Binaries, HYENAZ transmutes breath—the primal dyad of in/out—into a hyperventilating ritual for queer worldmaking. What begins as a rhythmic pulse escalates into a chaos magic crescendo: bodies and cameras spiral through absurdist pantomimes of “sacred/profane,” “curved/straight,” “hand/eye,” each binary fractured into flickering particles. The tension builds, breath by breath, until the breaking point—a gnostic rupture where intention blooms and viewers can send their desires for personal and political change into the universe.

Scenes of ritualized absurdity performed by two sea-monster like creatures: frying an egg, drinking milk, pissing in a tub are diced into microscopic shards using the Jawa technique, a glitch alchemy HYENAZ learned from Tasman Richardson. These fragments syncopate with sound and pixel, stitching together a hallucinatory tapestry where meaning slips its seams. Stylist Yeorg Kronnagel drapes the performers in textures that blur grotesque and divine, while cinematographer Rilk Mob lenses the chaos through a prism of queered light, bending shadows into collaborators.

This is critical magic as praxis: a refusal of fixed forms, a love letter to disintegration. Binaries invites you to breathe with its arrhythmia, to let your gaze stutter across its glitch-smeared syntax. There is no resolution here—only the fertile void where binaries combust, and from their ashes, something wilder stirs.

Binaries is part of HYENAZ’s Critical Magic project, where performative rituals become sites of radical re-enchantment. CREDITS Creator/Lead Artist/Music HYENAZ Performers HYENAZ Stylist Yeorg Kronnagel Cinematographer Rilk Mob Video Edit HYENAZ