The team came about in an equally random fashion, when Charli ran into Harris and Ohs at a bar in New York’s Lower East Side in May. Harris, a friend of Charli’s, introduced her to Ohs, and when he told her about his filmmaking process, she said, “I want to do one,” as the director told Variety.

As ‘Brat’ summer raged, Charli XCX snuck away to Poland for a couple weeks in August to make a secret movie with playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris and filmmaker Pete Ohs. The film's title "ERUPCJA" is the Polish word for "eruption" and refers to,