Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow

What this video is

Released April 26, 2018, Black Snow arrives at a moment when experimental electronic artists were increasingly claiming full creative authorship over their visual output, moving beyond hired directors toward auteur video-making. Lopatin's video engages directly with late-capitalist anxiety, nuclear catastrophe memory (Fukushima), and the philosophical pessimism of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. The…

Why it matters

Black Snow is a landmark of 2010s experimental electronic video practice, demonstrating how artists operating in the post-Internet avant-garde could produce symbolically dense, art-cinema-paced visuals entirely outside the conventional music industry visual apparatus. It represents a synthesis of…

The director

Daniel Lopatin is an American composer, producer, and electronic musician operating as Oneohtrix Point Never. Based in Brooklyn, NY, he records for Warp Records. Known for synthesizer-based experimental work, he has scored feature films including Good Time…