Spoek Mathambo - Stuck Together

What this video is

Released in 2012 on Sub Pop — the Seattle label historically associated with grunge's global rise — 'Stuck Together' represents a significant moment in the international reception of South African underground music. Artist Spoek Mathambo (Nthato Mokgata), a Johannesburg-born, Malmö-based musician, used the album Father Creeper to chart a generation of post-apartheid South African urban youth shaped by internet…

Why it matters

The video represents a rare artifact of early-2010s Afrofuturist indie crossover: a South African artist on a major American indie label, with a video produced by French art-film directors, depicting an entirely non-African narrative context. This deliberate decoupling of song origin from visual…

The director

Elias Belkeddar is a Franco-Algerian writer, producer, and director born in Paris (1988). He co-wrote the Netflix feature Athena (2022, dir. Romain Gavras) and directed The King of Algiers (2023). Ugo Mangin is a French director based in Paris whose career…