Bibio - Wulf

What this video is

Released in May 2013 as part of Bibio's sixth studio album Silver Wilkinson on Warp Records, 'Wulf' occupies a moment when indie electronic artists were increasingly producing their own visual content outside of conventional music video production pipelines. Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson — a trained sonic arts graduate, self-taught videographer, and analog photography enthusiast — embodies the auteur model common to…

Why it matters

This video represents a key artifact of the 2010s folktronica/pastoral electronica visual idiom: the artist-made single-shot meditation that rejects conventional music video grammar (cuts, performance, narrative) in favor of environmental atmosphere and stillness. It documents Bibio's practice of…

The director

Stephen James Wilkinson (born 4 December 1978), known professionally as Bibio, is an English musician, producer, and visual artist based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. He studied sonic arts at Middlesex University (1999–2003). He releases music on Warp…