Knife Knights - Seven Wheel Motion

What this video is

Released in August 2019 as a promotional visual for the track 'Seven Wheel Motion' from Knife Knights' debut album '1 Time Mirage' (Sub Pop Records, September 2018), the video sits at the intersection of Afrofuturist world-building and the Pacific Northwest experimental underground. Knife Knights — the project of Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets, Shabazz Palaces) and Seattle producer-engineer Erik Blood — embodies a…

Why it matters

The video documents a key artifact of late-2010s Afrofuturist experimental hip-hop, reflecting the broader Sub Pop push into avant-garde rap. It exemplifies the era's trend of music videos functioning as micro short films with mythological or fantastical narratives, bridging hip-hop, indie rock…

The director

Seattle-based music video director whose confirmed credits include Knife Knights' 'Seven Wheel Motion' (2019), Tacocat's 'Talk' (2016), and Lisa Prank's 'Luv Is Dumb' (2016), per IMVDb. Her work is concentrated in the Pacific Northwest indie and experimental…