Flying Lotus - Tiny Tortures

What this video is

Released November 2012 during Flying Lotus's Until the Quiet Comes album cycle on Warp Records, 'Tiny Tortures' arrived on the same day Flying Lotus was publicly unmasked as underground rap alter ego Captain Murphy, doubling the cultural moment. The video sits at the intersection of the Los Angeles Low End Theory beat scene — which Flying Lotus anchored — and a growing wave of post-internet short-form CG filmmaking…

Why it matters

A landmark in early-2010s experimental electronic music video production, 'Tiny Tortures' demonstrated that photoreal CG body horror and narrative depth were achievable outside feature film budgets using freelance pipelines and desktop 3D tools. It helped codify an aesthetic vocabulary — dark…

The director

David Lewandowski is a Los Angeles-based director, animator, and visual effects artist. He gained widespread internet recognition for his viral short film 'Going to the Store.' He served as lead graphics animator on TRON: Legacy and as lead graphics animator…