Moaning - Connect the Dots

What this video is

Released March 19, 2020 — the eve of the COVID-19 global lockdown — 'Connect the Dots' arrived at a moment of acute collective anxiety. The video's fully virtual production via 'Filmmaking Simulation' made it inadvertently prescient: a music video produced without physical gathering, weeks before such a constraint became universal. The track is drawn from Moaning's sophomore album 'Uneasy Laughter' (Sub Pop, March…

Why it matters

Represents a key transitional moment in Moaning's catalog and in early-2020s indie post-punk broadly: a guitar-oriented band fully embracing synthetic textures, MPC-processed drums, and synth loops while retaining post-punk emotional urgency. Press comparisons to Joy Division, The Cure, early New…

The director

Campbell Logan (they/them) is a Los Angeles-based video artist, animator, filmmaker, and game developer. An alumnus of the California Institute of the Arts' Experimental Animation program, Logan operates under the production house Rasterbahn. Their work has…