Last month, experimental London musician/vocalist GAIKA released his latest EP, SPAGHETTO, via boundary-breaking electronic label Warp Records (home to Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and more). To accompany the EP, GAIKA has also directed an abstract short film, commissioned by Warp for Channel 4’s Random Acts series, that’s soundtracked by the music of SPAGHETTO. 

Titled Another Hole In Babylon, the stylish but cryptic film stars UK actor Zawe Ashton (best known for her roles in Fresh Meat and Not Safe For Work) and explores the EP’s themes of “love, tension, and political strife”, according to a press release.

“The film is about a few interlocking things,” GAIKA says, “It’s human emotion existing within reality. I think a lot of the time in music or art, we live in a fantasy world, and living in that fantasy world and being completely separated from reality becomes normal, but it’s weird to me. I wanted to try and make something that really shows how I feel, that those things aren’t separate, feelings aren’t abstract from forces. If you take an idea, abstract it, reality can and will still show through.”

There’s also a personal element to the video that GAIKA explores. “It’s also about my parents and experiences that they witnessed, in some regard, as truth be told, you can’t separate the spaghetti from the sauce,” he says, “On some level it’s about the world that we live in at the moment too as much as it about people in a Knightsbridge basement in 1975.”

This isn’t GAIKA’s first foray into film – earlier this year he released an Akira-inspired short alongside his Security mixtape.

GAIKA plays London’s Corsica Studios on November 30. Watch Another Hole In Babylon above.