patten - Dialler

What this video is

Dialler is taken from patten's third album Ψ (Psi), released on Warp Records in September 2016 by the Franco-British duo known only as D and A. The album marked patten's most fully realised fusion of deconstructed club music, post-punk industrial textures and hi-tech electronics, developed partly through an iterative live AV performance practice. The video, directed by Jane Eastlight / 555-5555, reflects patten's…

Why it matters

Dialler exemplifies the 2016 moment of UK experimental electronic music's intersection with visual art institution culture. As a Warp Records release, it sits within a label lineage running from IDM through to post-internet abstraction. The video's use of pure darkness, duration, and stasis as…

The director

Jane Eastlight is a UK-based visual artist and video director known as a longstanding creative collaborator with experimental electronic act patten, and a core member of the patten-affiliated creative collective 555-5555. Her work spans music video…