Flying Lotus - Coronus, The Terminator

What this video is

Released January 14, 2015, the video accompanies a track from Flying Lotus's fifth studio album You're Dead! (Warp Records, October 6, 2014), a critically acclaimed work described as electronic, jazz fusion, and hip-hop that received an 88 Metacritic score from 36 reviews. The album's central theme — mortality, the afterlife, and the psychedelia of dying — is rendered in the video as a hallucinatory death-walk…

Why it matters

A landmark of 2010s experimental electronic music video production, Coronus, The Terminator demonstrates the full maturation of the post-Brainfeeder visual grammar: slow, literary, death-preoccupied, and formally indebted to art cinema rather than pop video conventions. Its avg. shot length of…

The director

Toronto-born, Los Angeles-raised director Alex Takacs works under the pseudonym Young Replicant, a moniker derived from the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. He studied English and graphic design at UCLA. Operating under Pulse Films, he has directed videos for…