Hudson Mohawke - System

What this video is

Released October 2015 to accompany Hudson Mohawke's second studio album Lantern (Warp Records), 'System' arrived at the apex of a moment when electronic music producers were commissioning fine-art-adjacent music videos that blurred the line between club AV performance and broadcast short film. The video's commission through Channel 4's Random Acts program — a UK public broadcaster arts initiative — situates it…

Why it matters

A landmark example of mid-2010s electronic music visual culture: the concept-only, human-free music video as fine art commission. The video synthesizes Detroit techno iconography, late-1990s rave CG aesthetics, and 4K drone cinematography into a cohesive visual language that would become…

The director

Dominic Flannigan is the creative director of the Scottish label LuckyMe, the collective co-founded by Hudson Mohawke. Nic Hamilton is a visual artist and filmmaker whose CG and aerial treatment work appears across Warp Records projects. Both co-directed…