Broadcast and The Focus Group - #2： I See, So I See So

What this video is

Released in October 2009 on Warp Records, 'Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age' arrived at the apex of the UK hauntology movement — a cultural-critical framework applied to music and visual art evoking ghostly, degraded remnants of postwar British modernism. The collaboration between Birmingham avant-pop group Broadcast and Julian House's Focus Group project synthesised Broadcast's echo-laden psychedelic pop…

Why it matters

This video is a primary audiovisual document of hauntology's mainstream critical moment, demonstrating how Ghost Box's retro-futurist collage methodology translated into moving-image form. As a promotional artefact for what The Wire called its Record of the Year for 2009, it encapsulates the…

The director

Julian House is a British graphic designer, animator, director, and musician based in London. He co-founded Ghost Box Records in 2004 with Jim Jupp and records experimental electronic music as The Focus Group. He is a partner and creative director at Intro,…