Oneohtrix Point Never - On an Axis

What this video is

Released in February 2024 as part of the promotional cycle for Oneohtrix Point Never's tenth studio album 'Again' (Warp Records, September 2023), described by Daniel Lopatin as 'a speculative autobiography.' The video arrives at a moment when experimental electronic artists increasingly commission gallery-world filmmakers to direct their music videos, blurring institutional lines between art cinema, installation…

Why it matters

Represents a 2020s high-water mark for art-world/experimental music video collaboration: a gallery-exhibited filmmaker directing a Warp Records artist, situating the music video within discourses of fine art cinema. The fast montage tempo and conceptual looping structure mirror OPN's musical…

The director

Andrew Norman Wilson (b. 1983, USA) is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and lecturer based between Europe and the US, working across video, sculpture, photography, and performance. He earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011)…