!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Couldn't Have Known

What this video is

Released in August 2019 as a lead single for !!!'s eighth album 'Wallop' on Warp Records, this video arrives at a moment when animated music videos by auteur directors had become a prestigious format for avant-garde dance and indie labels. Chung's work embeds queer visual culture, body-positive transgression, and psychedelic club aesthetics into a framework legible to both the dance-punk fanbase of !!! and the…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark for the animated music video as transgressive art object within the dance-punk and indie-electronic space. Chung's anarchic 2D animation style, rooted in hand-painted RCA graduate film traditions and queer visual culture, elevates the format beyond promotional content…

The director

Taiwanese animation director and visual artist based in Berlin. Studied animation in Taiwan and completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in London. Known for a signature style described as 'loud, noisy and fluid' with out-of-proportion characters and…