Plaid - Wallet

What this video is

Released in May 2014 as part of Plaid's tenth studio album 'Reachy Prints' on Warp Records, 'Wallet' arrives during a period of renewed critical attention toward the IDM genre's founding figures. Plaid — Andy Turner and Ed Handley — had been Warp signatories since 1993 and were recognized as part of the 1990s electronica generation alongside Aphex Twin and Autechre. The pairing with Sabrina Ratté situates the video…

Why it matters

'Wallet' represents a canonical example of the 2010s IDM music video form: a non-narrative, concept-driven audiovisual work produced by a fine-art video practitioner rather than a commercial director. The collaboration between Warp Records artists and gallery-circuit video artists during this era…

The director

Sabrina Ratté (b. 1982, Quebec City) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. She holds a BFA and MFA from the Film Production Department of Concordia University. Her practice spans analog video synthesis, 3D animation, photogrammetry, sculpture, and…