Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama (Prologue)
2015 · 5m · Canada / USA
Directed by Jon Rafman, Daniel Lopatin
Genres: experimental, musical, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, dark, surreal
A film by visual artist Jon Rafman and musician Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) serving as a prologue to the Garden of Delete album era — combining Rafman's internet-sourced visual archaeology with Lopatin's hyper-compressed digital emotional aesthetic.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Rafman and Lopatin is one of those rare collaborations where both parties are working at the same level of formal sophistication — this isn't a music video, it's a co-authored artwork. Garden of Delete needed this prologue to exist first.
Rafman and Lopatin as genuine co-authors — internet horror as shared unconscious. This is the rare music-video-adjacent piece I'd actually defend as art.
Rafman and Lopatin operate as genuine co-authors here — the web as unconscious to be excavated, scored from the inside. Garden of Delete-era OPN at its most visually realized.