Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals (Director's Cut)

What this video is

Released October 19, 2016, this Director's Cut of 'Animals' accompanies a track from OPN's 2015 Warp Records LP 'Garden of Delete.' The video debuted as the centrepiece of 'Ecco: The Videos of Oneohtrix Point Never and Related Works,' a museum retrospective at UCLA's Hammer Museum — an unusually institutional premiere context for a music video, signalling Lopatin's positioning within fine-art discourse as much as…

Why it matters

A landmark example of the mid-2010s art-house music video, where experimental electronic artists began commissioning narrative feature directors for short-form visual work intended for gallery exhibition first and digital distribution second. Alverson's frame-removal technique translates his film…

The director

Rick Alverson (born June 25, 1971, Spokane, Washington) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician based in Richmond, Virginia. His feature films include The Comedy (2012), Entertainment (2015), and The Mountain (2018), which premiered in…