Flying Lotus - Infinitum

What this video is

Released in 2008 as part of Flying Lotus's prolific L.A. EP trilogy on Warp Records, 'Infinitum' arrives at a pivotal moment in the Los Angeles beat scene — just before the Low End Theory club night crystallized a global movement and one year before FlyLo's landmark album 'Los Angeles'. The video's surrealist, durational imagery — an archer dissolving a half-moon — reflects the cosmological and spiritual…

Why it matters

As one of only a handful of non-animated live-action Flying Lotus videos from this era, 'Infinitum' occupies a rare position in his visual catalogue — eschewing his more kinetic, psychedelic animation work in favor of slow, mythopoeic realism. It documents the earliest phase of what would become…

The director

Daniel Garcia (born July 24, 1975) is an American music video and commercial director. He began his career designing labels for santería potions at local botánicas, then joined advertising agency DDB before going freelance. Garcia practices computer…