Nine Inch Nails try to grasp something real in a chaotic, pixelated world in the new music video for their recent single, “As Alive As You Need Me to Be.”

The video was directed by Maxime Quoilin, who centers the clip around a close-up performance from Trent Reznor , while using an array of different effects to bend space and warp reality. For all the mesmerizing technical wizardry on display, there’s something distinctly tactile about the look of the video, especially as the tension in the visuals builds alongside the music.

Nine Inch Nails released “As Alive As You Need Me to Be” back in July, with the song set to appear on the soundtrack they created for Tron: Ares . The movie — about humans crossing paths with A.I. beings for the first time — hits theaters Oct. 10, but the so

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