Bibio - Business Park

What this video is

Released in 2013 as part of Bibio's sixth studio album Silver Wilkinson (Warp Records, 14 May 2013), 'Business Park' occupies an unusual position even within the album — noted by reviewers as a stylistic outlier that nonetheless coheres within the record's eclectic whole. The video's zero-cut, locked-frame approach mirrors the ambient and hauntological tendencies of early-2010s UK independent electronic culture,…

Why it matters

Represents the intersection of folktronica, ambient, and hauntological visual aesthetics within Warp Records' early-2010s roster. The unedited single-take format positions the video within a lineage of minimalist music video art that prioritises duration and atmosphere over narrative or…

The director

Stephen James Wilkinson (born 4 December 1978, Wolverhampton, England) is an English musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist recording as Bibio on Warp Records. He studied Sonic Arts at Middlesex University (1999–2002). He is known to handle his own…