Visitors to any one of around 50 ghost cities in China will be struck by the scale of the uninhabited buildings and how quickly they fall into decay. Once in a while, they get a second life.

Filmmaker Romain Gavras used the eerily-vacant Tianducheng, or Tiandu city in Hangzhou, as the setting for a dramatic music video for British DJ Jamie xx’s track “Gosh.”

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