The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health

What this video is

Released in 2006 as a single from The Knife's landmark album Silent Shout, this video sits at the intersection of European electronic music's mid-decade avant-garde peak and the emerging art-music video form. The Knife — Karin and Olof Dreijer, operating from Stockholm on their own Rabid Records imprint since 1999 — were internationally breaking through with Silent Shout's dark, distorted electropop. Pitchfork…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of mid-2000s electropop and Scandinavian electronic experimentalism. The Knife's refusal of conventional music video tropes — no performance, no narrative, pure animation — reinforced their identity as a conceptual project. Nakamura's aesthetic directly extended the track's…

The director

Japanese-born award-winning digital animator and projection artist based in Croton On Hudson, NY. Studied Communication Design and Illustration at Parsons School of Design, New York. His work is defined by red, black, and white palettes and cryptozoological…