Shikoswe

Whirl, Warm Me

Music Video

Direction/Editing/Art Direction/VFX

2025

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About

Whirl, Warm Me is a music video produced by Houseguest Studios for Bergen-based indie artist Shikoswe. Coming in at six-and-a-half minutes, it plays more like an experimental short film. Starring the artist as a dysfunctional nuclear family inside a handcrafted miniature world somewhere between the Wizard of Oz and a Lynchian version of Barbie's Dreamhouse. Shikoswe's mesmerizing choreography channels domestic uncertainty, play, and unrest — as an inevitable storm draws closer.


Credits

JOE RUFA—Director, Editor, Art Direction, VFX

ANA MARIA ABURTO—Production Design

LUKE SHRYOCK—Production Design

MALIK FAKIRI—Director of Photography (Miniatures)

DANIEL TORKELSEN—Director of Photography (Performance)

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Ideation Sketches & Behind the Scenes

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© 2026 Joe Rufa. All rights reserved.


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