Mataz

“Mataz” was a song originally released by Lucybell in 1997 via the record label EMI. The new album, Sesion Futura, had came out months prior to me working with the band and contained a new version of the song. Being familiar with the band’s work over the last five years, I was no stranger to the song nor to the music video that had been done by mister Monea’s Mataz.

Lucybell was going to release the live version as a single and wanted me to give the song a new visual twist to go with it. The best thing about the project was that I was given one hundred percent creative control.

After a few meetings individually and with the three band members, I asked each the sole question of what the song meant to them. They each had their own interpretation, yet all keyed in on the sexual desire of a woman. This concept was central in the song’s lyrics and enhanced by Claudio’s sensual voice. I came up with a dream like scenario in which the band performed a live show, then moved along into a surreal world of color and texture. The images were then juxtaposed with nude colored shots of female body parts.

Each band member had their own individual dream like scenario and the band would only come together when they were playing a set which I built incorporating live projections of female body parts. To this day, the video for “Mataz” is one of the most experimental videos ever made for the band. It’s one of my favorite videos because of its playful use of color and mounted images, which at times reminds the audience of looking at a moving collage.

These and many other elements within the video generated new realms of possibilities in the music video genre of the time. The video was not well received by Warner, but the band felt that it had put them on the cutting edge of the Spanish Rock scene in South America in 2002.