Flying Lotus - Inside the Codex： the Art of Cosmogramma

What this video is

Released in mid-2010 as a companion piece to Cosmogramma (Warp Records, May 3 2010), this short film documents the intersection of experimental electronica and esoteric visual art at a pivotal moment in the Los Angeles beat scene. The album drew conceptually on lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences, and its aesthetic was inseparable from the hermetic, alchemical imagery of artist Leigh J. McCloskey, whose…

Why it matters

As a Warp Records-produced art documentary rather than a conventional music video, this piece occupies a rare generic position: the album-as-art-object promotional film. It anticipates the post-streaming era's expanded appetite for artist process content while functioning as a serious document of…

The director

David Wexler, working under the alias StrangeLoop, is a Los Angeles-based live-cinema artist, visualist, and music composer. He is the resident visualist for Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder imprint and co-founder of Strangeloop Studios. The grandson of Academy…