Absolutely Free - Interface

What this video is

Released August 2021, 'Interface' arrives at a moment when pandemic-era lockdowns had accelerated global discourse around digital identity, virtual sociality, and screen-mediated life. Singer Matt King's lyrical premise — recalling adolescent summers lost to early web chat programs over physical experience — resonated acutely with audiences who had just lived through enforced digital substitution for embodied…

Why it matters

A landmark single within 2020s Canadian experimental indie-pop, 'Interface' demonstrates how psychedelic art-rock can absorb early-internet nostalgia aesthetics and digital-identity philosophy without sacrificing melodic accessibility. Its fusion of krautrock rhythmic logic, synthesizer…

The director

Benjamin Portas (b. 1979, Australia) is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary visual artist specialising in motion and video. After years as a graphic designer in the music and arts world, he shifted to moving image experiments. His practice spans…