Here's a new video for Leverage Models' new single "Sweep". The slow motion footage and shallow depth of field matches the song's dance rhythm and it is nothing short of beautiful. The real surprise here though, is what it was filmed on - just a couple of iPhones and a snazzy lens adapter.

Shot by director-producer, husband and wife team Rob Hatch-Miller and Puloma Basu, the duo were offered the opportunity to direct their own piece but had an unusually small budget to work with.

After reading about a 35mm SLR lens adapter from a company called Vid-Atlantic, Hatch-Miller and Basu wrote the company—and by a strike of good fortune, ended up with a kit to use.

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Check out the kit above held by Hatch-Miller. The resulting footage shows the video's gauzy and film-like layer. According to the directors:
It's essentially like shooting with a toy camera. Some of the parts are flimsy, it doesn't always work perfectly and you have to play around quite a bit to find the ideal angles and lighting situations for it. That said, the look of the footage is totally unique.
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