Hudson Mohawke - Very First Breath ft. Irfane

What this video is

Released in May 2015 as the lead single from Hudson Mohawke's second album Lantern on Warp Records, 'Very First Breath' arrived at a moment when post-dubstep and cinematic electronic music were converging with high-concept music video production. The collaboration between a Glasgow-born, Glasgow-raised electronic producer and a Dutch arthouse short-film director exemplifies the mid-2010s transnational creative…

Why it matters

The video is a significant arthouse-electronic crossover artifact: a near-static, single-long-take neo-noir short film deployed as a promotional vehicle for a Warp Records electronica release. Its zero-cut editing approach (184.32s, 0 scene changes) is highly unusual for the genre and aligns the…

The director

Sam de Jong (born 1986, Netherlands) studied documentary directing at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam. He has directed commercials and music videos, and is recognised as one of the most distinctive filmmaking voices to emerge from the Netherlands in…