Daniel Lopatin
Enter the experience of Dawn FM as The Weeknd performs his latest album live in a theatrically unsettled and unnerving world.
Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth packed score for Uncut Gems. In this exclusive documentary, Lopatin highlights the soundtrack's extensive use of Moog One and how he used the instrument to craft the film's most dramatic moments.
Soundtracked to electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never's "Sleep Dealer", a man endures a cycle of daily repetition during a COVID-19 induced lockdown.
The Weeknd takes a trip to Las Vegas to decompress after a failed romance, what follows is a brainmelting trip of psychedelia, blood and blinding lights.
This single-channel video explores the effects of technology and information overload on the contemporary psyche. Set in a virtual tech-noir urban space populated by strange hybrids of non-humans and augmented people, part of the expansive, fractured narrative focuses on the continued adventures of Xanax Girl and her search for her companion—a hybrid dog/seal with the head of a boy—who has been abducted. The film, which arose from the artist’s daily practice of animating his dreams using hobbyist 3D software, weaves together deep-web imagery with hardboiled detective story tropes and repressed libidinal fantasies to create a nightmarish vision of an internet addict’s unconscious. The film features an original score by Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferraro.
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.
Experimental narrative animation using hobbyist 3D animation and inspired by niche genres of computer-generated erotica.
'The Pure and the Damned' music video by Oneohtrix Point Never ft. Iggy Pop from the official soundtrack of Good Time, including unused scenes of a 'what if' ending if Connie and Nick successfully completed the heist.
“Sticky Drama (Four Tet Extended Version)” is a concept conceived by Oneohtrix Point Never and brought to life by Boiler Room, in conjunction with the Barbican and Warp Records. The film opens in the Barbican’s famous concert hall and slowly descends into the bowels of the Chamberlin, Powell and Bon designed complex. The almost hour-long remix by Four Tet provides a seamless soundtrack covering the grounds of cyclical minimalism, hypergrunge and passages of pure silence. Silence is employed during this piece.
On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community - and how to kill. With the birth of a new baby brother weighing on his mind, Alexander begins to question Gregori’s overpowering influence on the children and their training to become assassins. Threatened by his increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and the commune’s way of life disintegrating, the residents fear a violent resolution is at hand.
Featuring a cast of over 35 children, with Oneohtrix Point Never’s soundtrack, Sticky Drama portrays the development of a role-playing game set in a fantastical and violent world in which its participants struggle to preserve their memory and past histories.
Ray-Ban x Boiler Room 005 witnessed Brooklyn-based Oneohtrix Point Never unveil a specially created A/V show with visual collaborator Nate Boyce, continuing the artist’s singular statement of shattering electronic experiments. Unpredictable as ever, this one really affirms Lopatin's position as one of the digital vanguard's most enigmatic experimentalists.
‘Still Life (Betamale)’ draws images from a range of online fetish sites, engaging with the theme of obsessive desire. The narrated version of the album track is immersed in the simultaneously captivating and disturbing world of internet subcultures.
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use use the Internet to track the whereabouts of famous celebrities, then rob their homes of riches.
As you look at the screen, it is possible to believe you are gazing into eternity.
Sourced entirely from YouTube, converted and edited using Windows Media Maker. A comprehensive list of video credits is available at pointnever.com Root Strata, 2009 Pro-duplicated DVD-R in a slimline DVD case with translucent colour cover and transparent insert. Limited to 250 copies.
experimental found footage film; in a loop a rainbow coloured shape in front of a city skyline moves to the left side of the frame, then to the right and then back again – meanwhile the soundtrack loops a moment of the Chris De Burgh song "Lady in Red", the words "nobody here" are repeated
The first collection of music videos by Daniel Lopatin under his solo handle, Oneohtrix Point Never. Created entirely from YouTube videos and edited in Windows Movie Maker, Lopatin recomposes outmoded video graphic landscapes via repetition and abuse.
Video by Takeshi Murata, 'Problem Areas' appears on the album 'R Plus Seven' released in 2013.
