Oneohtrix Point Never - The Station

What this video is

Released July 23, 2018 alongside Age Of companion EPs, The Station video arrives at a moment when experimental electronic artists were increasingly commissioning fine-art animators and illustrators for music video work, bypassing conventional live-action production entirely. Oneohtrix Point Never's Age Of period was marked by critical engagement with themes of excess, civilization, and bodily transformation. The…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of 2010s art-animation music video practice within the experimental electronic genre, The Station demonstrates the viability of hand-crafted monochromatic illustration as a vehicle for surrealist narrative in the Warp Records aesthetic tradition. It exemplifies the era's…

The director

Daylen Seu is an American illustrator and animator with prior music video directing credits including works for Why Be and Musica Jao. Seu's practice bridges fine-art illustration and animated music video direction, working within the experimental and…