Oneohtrix Point Never - Long Road Home

What this video is

Released October 14, 2020, during global COVID-19 lockdowns, Long Road Home emerged from a summer of remote creative exchange between Daniel Lopatin and co-directors Charlie Fox and Emily Schubert. The video belongs to the broader artistic universe of Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, OPN's ninth studio album for Warp Records, which drew on psychedelic FM radio aesthetics and was recorded between March and July 2020.…

Why it matters

Represents a high-water mark for art-world-adjacent music video production within experimental electronic music: a fully realized stop-motion short film with a coherent romantic-horror narrative, produced outside conventional label video infrastructure. Situates OPN within a lineage of avant-garde…

The director

Charlie Fox is a London-based writer and artist known for the essay collection This Young Monster (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017) and for curating horror-themed art shows including My Head Is a Haunted House and Dracula's Wedding; he has contributed to…