Filter - Jurassitol

What this video is

Released July 29, 1996, 'Jurassitol' was created exclusively for The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack — the sequel to the seminal 1994 gothic-rock film The Crow. The soundtrack, released by Hollywood Records/Miramax, was a landmark industrial-alternative compilation featuring White Zombie, Korn, Deftones, Hole, and Iggy Pop, and was certified Platinum in the United States. Filter, formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio…

Why it matters

A definitive artifact of mid-90s industrial rock's intersection with dark-cinema soundtrack culture. The video encapsulates the aesthetic grammar of the post-NIN alternative underground — abrasive sonic energy, rapid-cut visual aggression, and gothic-adjacent visual language — at a moment when…

The director

Dean Karr is a Seattle-raised, Los Angeles-based director and photographer who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington State University and later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He shot his first music video in 1994 and rose…