BROADCAST- PAPERCUTS - BROADCAST- PAPERCUTS

What this video is

Released in April 2000 on Warp Records, 'Papercuts' arrived during a fertile period for UK experimental indie-electronic music, when labels like Warp were expanding from IDM and techno into song-based pop forms. Broadcast, formed in Birmingham in 1995, occupied a singular niche: fusing the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's tape-manipulation tradition with 1960s American psychedelic pop, producing a retrofuturism that felt…

Why it matters

A key document of UK indietronica at its most conceptually rigorous, 'Papercuts' sits at the intersection of avant-garde visual art, electronic pop, and neo-psychedelia. Its inclusion in Warp Vision: The Videos 1989–2004 confirms its importance to Warp Records' visual canon. The Dreamachine…

The director

UK-based director and cinematographer who began his career as a runner at RSA Films (the Ridley and Tony Scott production company), working his way up to Assistant Director alongside industry figures including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Mike Leigh, Alan…