Oneohtrix Point Never - On an Axis

JUL 01 2024 · 12:00

Oneohtrix Point Never - On an Axis (2024) Director: Andrew Norman Wilson Era: Post-Digital Hauntology / Experimental Electronic (2023–2024) - Warp Records era of art-world crossover music video; OPN's 'Again' album cycle, situated at the intersection of avant-garde visual art and experimental electronic music. High curatorial value as a documented collaboration between one of experimental electronic music's foremost artists (Oneohtrix Point Never / Daniel Lopatin) and a filmmaker whose work is held in MoMA, the Whitney, and Centre Pompidou. The video's confirmed production credits, institutional pedigree, and integration into a Blu-ray deluxe release make it a well-documented artifact of 2020s art-music convergence. Its warm-toned, loop-driven conceptual structure is a strong specimen of hauntological visual aesthetics in post-digital music video production. Context: Released in February 2024 as part of the promotional cycle for Oneohtrix Point Never's tenth studio album 'Again' (Warp Records, September 2023), described by Daniel Lopatin as 'a speculative autobiography.' The video arrives at a moment when experimental electronic artists increasingly commission gallery-world filmmakers to direct their music videos, blurring institutional lines between art cinema, installation practice, and the promotional music video format. Wilson's practice, rooted in critiques of technology, labor, and corporate aesthetics, resonates with OPN's own obsession with digital mediation, memory, and the uncanny textures of contemporary sonic culture. The warm-toned, hauntological visual register aligns with the album's themes of counterfactual personal history and temporal recursion. Director notes: Confirmed director and editor of the 'On an Axis' music video, released 6 February 2024. Produced by Rachel Walden and Jeannie Sui Wonders; cinematography by Owen Smith Clark; drone operation by Jake Howard; VFX by Rob Scharlach; props by Arjun Ram Srivatsa. The video was included in the Warp Records Blu-ray deluxe edition of the album 'Again' (released June 14, 2024), which also featured an immersive Dolby Atmos mix. Clash Magazine described the video as one where 'repetition and expectation, cycling, blurring, looping through creation and dissolution tightens into a visual corkscrew, like memory, it becomes an open invitation to try to find the bottom of a bottomless hole.'