Kelly Moran - Butterfly Phase

What this video is

Released in February 2024 as the lead single for Kelly Moran's album 'Moves in the Field' (Warp Records), 'Butterfly Phase' sits at the convergence of experimental piano composition, post-pandemic artistic reinvention, and the growing cultural crossover between avant-garde music and elite athletic performance. The album title itself references a series of figure skating rudiments, and the video literalizes this…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the 2020s neoclassical ambient video canon, 'Butterfly Phase' demonstrates how Warp Records-affiliated artists have expanded the visual language of experimental music into embodied performance art — specifically figure skating — reinforcing the genre's ongoing dialogue with…

The director

Charlie Rees is a UK-based music video director and cinematographer, co-founder of Fuego Films (est. 2018), and a director at Untold Studios since January 2021. His credits include music videos for Majestic & Nightcrawlers, Clean Bandit x Tiësto x Leony, and…