I’ve been building a series called Rewired Archive, where I take old films and completely reconstruct their visual rhythm in After Effects around a DJ set.
This is #003 — Astro Monster, using footage from Ishirō Honda’s Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965).
The whole 55-minute visual piece is synchronized to the mix using cuts, time remapping, looping, displacement, glitches and signal-style disruptions. Rather than illustrating the music, I try to make the original film behave like another instrument in the set.
The DJ mix is done in Traktor, then the visual structure is built in After Effects.
Mixed in Traktor // Built in After Effects
Would be interested to hear what other AE users think of the approach — especially the synchronization and treatment of the source footage.