Blockhead – The Music Scene
2010 · 5m · USA
Directed by Anthony F. Schepperd
Genres: animation, experimental, musical
Tones: absurdist, surreal, tense
Sentient televisions sprout tentacles to construct a humanoid figure which proceeds to disassemble jungle animals in an escalating psychedelic vision.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
It's a music video that decided it wanted to be a body-horror fever dream about the teleological destiny of television, and honestly? Same.
Schepperd's televisions sprouting tentacles to assemble a TV-man who dismembers jungle animals — five minutes of psychedelic visual deadpan that earned its 20 million views by being formally distinct from anything else on the platform. A staple of the era for a reason.
20M YouTube views over sixteen years for a reason — Schepperd's TV-tentacle dismemberment psychedelia treated with complete visual deadpan. The fact that it's officially a music video doesn't dilute the standalone short.