Oneohtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone

What this video is

Released November 12, 2020 — two weeks after the parent album Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp, October 30, 2020) — during the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. The album was conceived as a meditation on radio as comfort object and nostalgia machine, recorded between March and July 2020. The Safdies and Lopatin developed the video's channel-surfing conceit from shared pandemic-era sessions listening to archival FM…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of hypnagogic pop and experimental electronic music video practice. The video's collage-montage strategy — splicing archival commercial footage, horror imagery, and live performance — is a direct visual analogue to OPN's compositional method of layering degraded FM-era sound…

The director

Josh and Benny Safdie are New York-based writer-directors known for visceral, urgent narrative filmmaking. Their features include Good Time (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019), both scored by Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), establishing one of the most…