Your guess is as good as mine as to what’s happening in Logan Takahashi‘s new video for “Rekr“. Directed by Theo Anthony, and featuring VFX from one of our favorite animators, Milton Melvin Croissant III, this video’s complex imagery set’s the thread of a storyline inside abstracted and surreal footage. Using captioned snippets of conversation, and a nebulous ring of characters engaged in equally opaque activities, “Rekr”‘s protagonists seem to be carrying out some covert plot. But what it involves, and to what ends, are buried in a dream-like mystery.
Takahashi, who is one half of the duo Teen Girl Fantasy, explains that his record NoGeo (Ghostly International) was inspired by the transgression of boundaries. In talking about the track “Rekr”, he offers:
“There’s an idea that I’ve been pretty inspired by for the past 5 or 6 years, and it’s the idea of viewing technology and computers as “organic”. We normally think of “technology” and “organic” as two separate things, but computers are made of crystals and metals and magnets from the earth. That idea is interesting to me.”
Intriguing indeed, “Rekr”‘s imagery, with the help of Milton Melvin Croissant’s animating ectoplasma and strangely sentient objects, creates a world of blurred boundaries where general ontological assumptions like ‘real’/’fake’, ‘analog’/’digital’, or, as Takahashi puts it, ‘technology’/’organic,’ no longer seem applicable. If so, the future promises to be an increasingly uncanny experience!