if selfish teammate were a horse, they’d bite you
The Minneapolis duo’s “Field of Flowers” video features equine VHS studies and sweaty garage performances fried by video synth.
Selfish Teammate, the Minneapolis duo of Lou Shemroske and Allie Chinone, have shared the video for their song “Field of Flowers.” The track originally appeared on their very sick 2025 tape I’ve Been Waiting For It My Whole Life. The music video was recorded, edited, and produced by Sandy Uhrich, aka Sandyscope.
The video was made using a video synth and horse footage culled from six VHS tapes acquired on eBay. Horses are a crucial element of the song; the bridge was inspired by the 2022 Kentucky Derby winner biting a pony right after the race. “I thought it was so funny, like this horse not only won but is making it a problem,” Shemroske wrote. “But I also thought about how racehorses are trained to win at all costs; their behaviors are engrained with intensity, so I also thought about how the horse was also just acting within his nature.”
Most of the video was shot in Uhrich’s garage last August. “He had set up a giant projector and we were doing everything in a closed garage on a disgustingly humid day,” Shemroske writes. “We were sweating and playing unplugged to the mastered track over and over. But pushing the limit is a time honored Selfish Teammate tradition.” The statement continues:
“Sandy had already gotten some random footage of me—also on unreasonably hot days—jumping up and down in front of a couple industrial buildings. We had also tried this crazy setup where he set a glass table top on two wooden saw horses so that I could stand on the glass, and he could photograph the bottom of my boots from below.
“We also had this idea that the music video would involve me hitting a mirror with a hammer. So that was the last thing we did while filming. Sandy had thrifted a flat mirror right on the garage floor, and I took a hammer and gave it one big crack. I’m not even sure if that footage ended up in the video, but I love that you can watch it multiple times and look for all of these different pieces amidst the gradients and negatives that the video synth created.”
Go listen to that Selfish Teammate tape and watch this freaky ass video.
see/saw tv is a tag I use to blog about videos I’d play on hypothetical music video broadcast. Here’s a sometimes-updated YouTube playlist with more.
