Flashy electronic video puts iPhone to the test

Aug 18, 2026 at 06:37 pm


A new Apple ‘Shot on iPhone’ is flashy, fleshy, and technically demanding. And it carries a health warning to viewers for whom it might trigger an epileptic attack.

The music video for Berlin electronic duo Brutalismus 3000’s Kairo was spliced together after vocalist Vassiliki Daldas threw an iPhone into the audience, allowing fans to capture the night from their own vantage point as the phone passed through the mosh pit.

Attendees shot parts of the footage using the iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Directors James Topley and Ivo Beckett of Magna Studios (formerly Deadhorses) used the raw footage, editing it into a single continuous video.

Avoiding conventional concert approaches, the and leaned into the chaos of strobe lighting, fog, sweat and movement to deliver a portrait of Berlin’s underground electronic scene, with the audience “directly inside the show”.

TBWA\Media Arts Lab London, who led the project, used additional software and hardware beyond the iPhone to pull the footage together.

As in previous videos, the release exploits the camera’s latest hardware capabilities in difficult shooting conditions.


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