Synopsis

A solitary figure in a ruined, neon-colored city becomes absorbed by a bizarre world ruled by television sets and animals. The imagery shifts constantly: buildings, bodies, creatures, and screens melt into one another as the character moves through an increasingly unstable landscape. What begins as a surreal urban journey grows into a psychedelic meditation on technology, spectatorship, and identity, with the video replacing a conventional narrative with a chain of vivid transformations that follow the track's restless, layered arrangement.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was commissioned by Ninja Tune for Blockhead's 2009 album of the same name.

• It was made as 2D, hand-drawn animation rather than live action or 3D computer animation. The fluid metamorphoses give the film its deliberately unstable, organic feel.

• The video's creative concept describes a "post human New York" in which animals have reclaimed the city and television has become a dominant presence.

• Blockhead later said that he had little involvement in the video's creation. Ninja Tune told him an animator was making a video, and the finished film arrived in his email. He had never met its creator, but called the result the best thing he had been involved with.

• The film won Best Commissioned Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Best Short Animated Film at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2010.

• The track itself is an instrumental, so the video supplies its own visual narrative instead of illustrating lyrics. Its abrupt changes and layered structure are matched by the animation's continual shifts in scale, character, and setting.