This week OPN‘s Daniel Lopati premiered his new video for “Animals” as part of Ecco: The Videos of Oneohtrix Point Never and Related Works at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Directed and edited by Rick Alverson (Entertainment, The Comedy), the video stars Val Kilmer. Beginning with a slow camera pan across a mysterious room, Kilmer is eventually seen sitting on the edge of a bed lost in some sort of Infinite Nod. Utilizing a strobing effect, Alverson’s long static shots take on a glitchy quality that echoes this track’s strange, sonic ticks.
Lopatin, who wrote the storyline for the video series with Alverson, explained via Twitter:
“Had been wanting to do something with Rick for a while. Got the idea to film Val listening to “Animals”. The effect of Rick cutting frames out looks like strobes but it’s actually missing frames. Which is how you get that beautiful wiggling”.
“Animals” is off OPN’s excellent 2015 LP Garden of Delete out now on Warp Records.
