Clark - Herr Barr

What this video is

Released in 2007 to support Clark's critically acclaimed Body Riddle (Warp Records, October 2006), 'Herr Barr' is the album's opening track and a founding statement of Clark's mid-career aesthetic — blending live drumming, orchestral flourishes, and dense electronic texture. The video was produced as a competition entry for the inaugural Radar Festival, situating it within the early-2000s rise of festival-circuit…

Why it matters

Represents the visual language of mid-2000s UK IDM/experimental electronic music video production: low-budget, concept-driven, aesthetically austere, and aligned with art-gallery and festival contexts rather than broadcast MTV rotation. Healy's Radar Festival-winning approach — using digital…

The director

R. James Healy was born in the North of England and grew up immersed in art, television, and electronic music during the heyday of home computing. His early experiments with the Commodore Amiga ignited a passion for animation, leading him to the National…