Danny Brown - Pneumonia

What this video is

Released October 13, 2016, during the promotional campaign for Danny Brown's critically acclaimed album Atrocity Exhibition (Fool's Gold / Warp Records, September 27, 2016), the video arrived at a moment of significant political anxiety in the United States weeks before the 2016 presidential election. The intercutting of Brown's body-horror performance with archival Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush footage…

Why it matters

A landmark visual artifact of mid-2010s industrial hip-hop, 'Pneumonia' by Danny Brown represents the era's most extreme merger of avant-garde European visual art direction with American underground rap performance. The video's body-suspension surrealism, mixed-format collage, and political…

The director

French filmmaker and writer/director who began directing at age 19 with his short film 'Prince Tribe'. After working in New York, he returned to Paris directing commercial projects for international brands including Nike, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Supreme.…