MGMT - Electric Feel

What this video is

Released during the peak commercial breakthrough of MGMT's debut album Oracular Spectacular (2007), 'Electric Feel' arrived at a moment when indie psychedelia was crossing over to mainstream audiences via blog culture, Pitchfork tastemaking, and festival circuits. The video's jungle-ritual surrealism and neon-body-paint communalism visually encoded the era's fascination with countercultural escapism and sensory…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of mid-2000s indie psychedelia, 'Electric Feel' and its video helped define the visual grammar of the psych-pop revival: neon saturation, communal ritual, celestial iconography, and surrealist narrative deployed on modest budgets. The interactive pre-production format was an…

The director

American director, screenwriter, and founding member of Court 13 filmmaking collective. Graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006 with a film degree. Directorial debut was the 2005 short film Jettison Your Loved Ones, which screened at the 2006 Slamdance…