Oneohtrix Point Never - Lost But Never Alone (Official Video)

‘Lost But Never Alone’ (Official Video), taken from the new album ‘Magic Oneohtrix Point Never’ out now on Warp Records | magic.pointnev...
Directed by Josh & Benny Safdie
Written by Josh & Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein
Edited by Benny Safdie
Produced by Sebo Bear, Eli Bush, Miranda Kahn, Jake Fleischman
Executive Produced by Elara Pictures
Production Company MIRMADE
Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘Lost But Never Alone’ is written, produced, performed and engineered by Daniel Lopatin with additional guitar synth by Nate Boyce.
DEVON - Cam “Ash” Rice
MOM - Angela Wildflower
DAD - Timothy Stickney
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - Daniel Lopatin
ENGINEER - Matt Cohn
With support from Amazon Music
Casting by Jen Venditti
Casting Associate - Alan Neal
Director of Photography - Maceo Bishop
Camera Operator - Zeus Morand
Steadicam Operator - Victor Lazaro
1st Assistant Camera - Kyle Sather
2nd Assistant Camera - Emma Penrose
Digital Imaging Tech - Abbie Jones
Special Thanks - Chris Messina
Production Designer - Luke Carr
Set Decorator - Linnea Crabtree
Leadman - Daniel Normile
Living Room Fabricator - Sean Callaghan
Bedroom Fabricator - Jonny Irons
Graphic Designers - Devon Bristol Shaw, David Strother, TJ Freda, Adriana Muniz, Neil Durkin, Ben Clement, Ilana Hope
Assistant Art - Matthew Orr
Production Design Consultant - Sam Lisenco
Costume Designed by Miyako Bellizzi
Costume Assistant - Alex Kennedy
Titles and Animation - Robert Beatty
Elara Assistance/BTS Photographer - John Paul Lopez
Archival Producer - Sara Rossein
Co-Producer - Taylor Shung
Associate Producer - Gaby Leyner
Gaffer - Jay Warrior
Best Boy Electric - Maximo Maluso
3rd Electric - Kevin Villafuerte
Key Grip - Robert Newman
Best Girl Grip - Alex Kary
3rd Grip - Omar Nasr
Best Boy Rigging Grip - Ace Buckley
3rd Rigging Grip - Josh Sheehan
Stunt Rigger - Jamie Northrup
Stunt Assistant - Anthony Mecca
Stunt Assistant - Brian Smyj
Stunt Assistant - Scott Kelly
Makeup Artist - Ta Ming Chen
Hair Artist - Austin Thornton
Hair Styling - Adriano Cattide
Hair Colorist - Christian De Luca
Hair Salon - The Drawing Room NYC
Assistant Editor - Sam Mink
VFX Supervisor - Kyle Sauer
Digital Compositing - Keaton Monger
Color by Damien Van Der Cruyssen
Special Thanks to The Mill
Production Assistant - Zac Kubersky
Production Assistant - Sam Dworkin
Office Assistants - Elana Eyal, Georgia Bridgers, Abbie Jones, Esmee Morris, Julia Schreib, Micaela Wilner
Guitar Teacher - Sam Ventura
Sound Engineer - Matt Cohn
OPN Management - Eliza Ryan, Ray Hearn and Andy James
Set Medic - David Morgan
Covid Safety Supervisor - Miranda Kahn
Special Thanks - Cinemaworld, Adorama, Eastern Effects, Rockbottom, Below the Line, Mission Chinese, George Beno, Dashi, Cherry Vintage
#MagicOneohtrixPointNever

[@Shortstak13]

safdie brothers need to make a horror movie jesus. they already got the anxiety down

[@croinkix]

Josh said they filmed Heaven Knows What like it was a horror movie.

[@restorethis7588]

@@croinkix Not to mention the fact that Harley basically played herself in real life... with some of the exact same experiences.

[@sylvainscs7664]

They will! Aparently, their next movie will be about a curse, I dont recall the details

[@the2ndcoming135]

Happy Father’s Day bro🙋🏽‍♂️

[@JeJ-ud9hb]

@@sylvainscs7664they split as a duo 😢

[@harrisonglenn6204]

imagine starting your career by inventing vaporwave and then continuing to do whatever the hell you want for the next 10 years lol what a legend

[@ambientnoiseaddict]

Doesn't make sense to me, He was already writing original shit before he dropped Eccojams. Also he denounces the shit out of his ties to vaporwave, no BS look it up

[@JohnDoe-vc5qb]

Viper invented Vaporwave

[@hit0that0shit]

Inventing vaporwave? Ever heard of this little things people used to call post-punk? What about new wave? I’m glad you enjoy this, but it’s not some kind of root or “new” thing. Everything is recycled, as it should be, dear child

[@Vilik-nm7ry]

@@hit0that0shit Why so condescending? Do you even realize what he's talking about? This track is obviously a new wave track but Eccojams was its own thing, born out of the internet. Maybe know what your talking about before being confidently incorrect.

[@ebob0531]

@@Vilik-nm7ry Uh excuse me, but he would rather be an asshole than be correct

[@joshuatxuk]

It's nice to see an artist explore retro aesthetics in a way that channels universal angst and emotional turmoil that is timeless and not just slick revisionist nostalgia.

[@ImpendingRiot83]

He gives you rose-colored glasses but makes sure to step on ‘em real hard beforehand so you can see the cracks. Truly hauntological Vaporwave is so hard to find but when you find it, it’s just _so fuckin’ good._

[@mothsinthecanyon]

@@ImpendingRiot83 what a perfect analogy for opn's sound. up there with "watching a tornado tear through a fabric mill", but even better because it involves emotional intention and cultural significance

[@Jonathan-we6lc]

Soooo... the opposite of what his mate The Weeknd has been doing?

[@HIPHOPANTIFA]

Sorry but NOBODY HERE times

[@ImpendingRiot83]

@@HIPHOPANTIFA Whatever that means.

[@definitelymiami7978]

ape footage is devastating and made me cry.

[@MrDanybe]

What about the poor bastard gettin his arm hacked off on the smartphone

[@user-gs6wt5op7p]

Racist

[@alistairpage-mcgill2723]

@@MrDanybe that bit looks horribly authentic

[@bastardmike3052]

love... it's universal... makes me cry, too. to be such a misanthropist, it hurts me to see people hurt. to see hurt in general.

[@ra2194]

It made me cry too but there’s no need to be racist

[@LJordan94]

YVES TUMOR ORIGIN STORY

[@chasewheeler6503]

Omggg hahaha

[@dreamsofanother]

😭 this comment is gold lmfao

[@crestonb5432]

mario judah orgin story

[@narc78]

Lol 😂

[@invisibl1452]

Every now and again I remember that Yves Tumor started as a chillwave/vaporwave artist (Teams)

[@Greg-df4bx]

Establishing the 80s sitcom scene then introducing the smartphone was very surreal and kinda broke my brain. The video suits the song and enhanced the vibe of it for me. Anachronistic decay.

[@willmcpherson2]

time is a circle by which i mean *become monke*

[@codeninja100]

This is some masterful shit right here. This feels like finding an old blank VHS someone recorded movies and sitcoms on overlapping each other. That smart phone made it super surreal

[@seanarooni]

kind of wish it was just monky memes cat pictures or something

[@UpcomingJedi]

You take my phone, i take yours then we break them!

[@ebob0531]

I grew up with smartphones. It took me a while to even realize that it was weird for it to be in the sitcom lol. It broke my brain but in reverse

[@WindTurbine813]

When you think you're going down an 80s nostalgia rabbit hole, only to end up re-experiencing painful memories from your adolescence.

WTF how did you suddenly get all those fake likes?

[@EvWuzhere]

Or from your long list chimpanzee best friend

[@MediaHose]

@ fake?

@@EvWuzhere which ones?

[@ecozones2d627]

What about the global fake plandemic 2020?

[@hernanmauriciosanabriatruj6208]

History will be kind to Daniel Lopatin. He has been changing the game for the past 14 years, I'm happy the Safdie brothers and The Weeknd are giving him exposure and the credit he deserves.

[@JasonTopo]

Finally.

[@danielplainview2584]

That's usually what happens, isn't it? The underground always influences the mainstream.

[@JasonTopo]

@@danielplainview2584 How so? Just curious.

[@danielplainview2584]

@@JasonTopo Well, if you look at popular music as far back as The Beatles they were inspired by avant garde composers (Stockhausen, Cage) and more niche underground music; you got this in the 90’s, too, where people like Madonna wanted to work with Aphex Twin, who also influenced Radiohead and even John Frusciante. I think I was a bit wrong to say “always”, but it happens a lot of the time in popular music.

[@gregorytaffer6758]

Facts

[@thereisnocontenthere]

what a goddamn amazing music video. When the guy went into his room and started playing guitar and the walls just fell away...wow

WTF how did you suddenly get all those fake likes?

[@tweedale.design]

slight Ascension Millenium vibes kzbin.info/www/bejne/nouZaHtvf610fq8

[@sauce1302]

@ WTF how do you stop spamming the same shit everywhere? 😳

[@the2ndcoming135]

He all just snatched the phone back from his pops😂

[@eliniatollea]

I will only watch this once so this feels like a dream.

[@Bajalization]

I first watched it immediately after waking up and I wasn't sure if it was a dream or not

[@pitfighter871]

i will only read that comment once so it only reads like a comment

[@croinkix]

I should've done what you did :(

[@matekolonics]

make it a recurring dream

[@orianaabdul7388]

@@Bajalization sddFffosdd

[@bretthackett3357]

"What is this?" - the actress deserves some kinda award just for perfectly nailing that sitcom voice, and actually adds to the song more than just the audio on the album and the vibe / aesthetic of this.

[@Owlero]

How she looks away when her husband goes for the telephone on the wall, the head nod of approval... It makes this video feel incredibly authentic, like a lost sitcom pilot.

[@michaelrhudak]

This is the best music video I've seen in like 4 years.

[@kjsciacca]

Directed by the Safdie brothers. That’s why

[@williammerriman439]

What was the next best one that you saw 4 years ago?

[@rorybmusic]

Honestly feels like i'm grieving for no legitimate reason

[@kepe7323]

I be grieving for monke

[@WhollyAppropriate]

Excellent description

[@rorybmusic]

@@kepe7323 Maybe i'm just empathising with monke

[@lukeperrier]

Its cuz this is whack art

[@captainwankbeard]

Maybe there is a reason

[@nopenotme3373]

1:58 The footage was originally uncensored, after about 3 weeks of the video being posted they blurred it. It was a video of a guy trying to cut another guys arm about the elbow.

[@WorldFungusChamp]

wish they could post an uncensored version on vimeo or something

[@lardkraken8231]

I wonder if anyone has it downloaded? If anyone does link it in the reply’s!

[@f_u_n_e_r_a_l]

I thought I was imagining this, I saw it when it came out and that part was awful.

[@julienschurgerfoy6298]

makes me wonder why this kid was watching arm cutting footage?

[@nopenotme3373]

@@julienschurgerfoy6298 you've never watched gore online? What world do you live in?

[@horror_head]

DANIEL'S EYELINER IS LIT!!!

[@Pipiundkakiinpipikakaland42]

YASS DANIEL SLAAAAY

[@casperchristiansen2458]

Guyliner is the future.

[@lukeperrier]

Queerfacing

[@MashMaloCircus]

Or just stealing from glam rock

[@videodrug]

Easy to notice the Clockwork orange ref...

[@labraham1025]

WOW I HAVENT FELT A GUITAR SOLO LIKE THAT IN A VERY LOOOONG TIME, THANK U SO MUCH

[@isbd589]

Finding out it's not a guitar is fucking with my brain

[@MasDouc]

This video is the perfect depiction of the contemporary mind as the infinite influx of information renders the self null in a vast sea of dadaist postmodernism.

[@benhoward204]

I just still. In my body, my mind and my spirit. Can't focus on these influx wells of seeds attacking my brain. I used to be ao captured. In grips of what i thought things were and ought to be. Now I see, i am truly Free.

[@Aluraine]

They smashed his phone, but he raised the roof.

[@ImpendingRiot83]

@ Stop asking people that, you’ve asked numerous people this stupid question. Some people just like a fuckin’ comment, dude.

[@keixoun]

the internet is not evil, it portrays evil because it's an open window into the human soul. i particularly feel that the generation that had an early adolescence coinciding with the mainstream internet access carries a fear and guilt about being misunderstood about what the internet is all about to their parents

[@glenvollmer]

it also doesn't help when all the guys pulling the strings (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc...) are legitimately evil

[@superclarendon8648]

I think facilitating evil and being evil (evil in this case not being gore, but corrosive, hateful, ignorant, destructive etc. speech and ideas) can and do overlap. I think by thinking the opposite that you excuse the worst of humanity as just being our “nature” and not a choice (I don’t mean to offend you, I just want to share my take). Additionally there are the practical examples/arguments as the other commenter mentioned, about how strongly immoral behavior is used to administrate and preserve the internet service, amongst others. When thinking about internet gore though, and I think you implied this, I believe the disgust is justified. I personally don’t think it provides any further constructive value or fulfills a necessity: therefore, I don’t think it has much of a right or reason to exist. However, thinking about the scenario presented in the video, I think it’s better to be level-headed and attempt to understand than to jump to being reactive and destructive. Although, this scenario is inherently surreal and unrealistic, which muddies the idea of what the “right thing” to do was, but if you’re taking it seriously then I have to too for the sake of argument.

[@raintuatoo6383]

The guy on the electric guitar is killing it.

[@imajica211]

Homage to the canadian slasher film "curtains " from 1983.

[@Sotelurian]

Thank you for providing the name. I was scanning the comments hoping to find it.

[@brendancadogan6235]

Dang I thought that was an original piece with the sitcom element. Still cool, but i thought the Safdies had just invented some kind of terrible creature just for two short clips of a 3 minute music video 😂

[@fruitypeebils]

i love the idea of an 80s sitcom family confiscating their sons smart phone and wondering what the hell it is

[@cybercafe-recordings]

I swear this video changes slightly every time i watch it.

[@jensdissevelt7338]

I think this has to be the 3rd version at least. The original had horrible uncensored footage of gore, that was censored in the second, and now omitted.

[@mamamiyalozatoz]

​@@jensdissevelt7338 the censored footage is still there

[@user-jv4kp8el1b]

losing your phone today is like cutting an arm off

[@davidinthedark5063]

This makes me feel like I'm sick at home on a school day, nauseous and with a high fever, flipping through daytime TV, feeling slightly disconnected from reality.

[@keanucarson]

Cant stop watching it. On repeat. I used to take drugs because I was angry at the feeling this video portrays. We are not truly living.

[@Karl_Marksman]

yeah there's gotta be more than this

[@theadversary]

We're just here...now

[@silverbullet5937]

Feel you dude

[@clairebaumfalk4459]

Yes

[@benhoward204]

​@@Karl_Marksmanwe are more than we can see.

[@justcallmeandy5180]

Your love, oh, we know it's sinking We both been through a lot of shit When I talk to the unknown I start to know your dreams But I had to try I'm lost but never alone I'm lost but never alone It's not the same We can't go on any more, not any more I'm lost but never alone It takes two to make this work You wanna give me that look? I won't stop you, but I ought to Make me wipe away your tears But I had to try I'm lost but never alone I'm lost but never alone It's not the same We can't go on, not any more We can't go on any more

[@threethrushes]

I remember listening to this in 1987. Great song. Glad to see a new generation enjoying it.

[@memorytheater]

This came out in 2020. But yeah, huge 80's power ballad vibes

[@MasDouc]

@@memorytheater Whoosh

[@Knifymoloko]

@@MasDouc ba-boosh-ka

[@GamingSandviches]

Wow. Honestly this is one of the best music videos I've ever seen. I cried.

[@oofadoofa313]

My man OPN bringing back the guyliner!!

[@OblivionXE]

Looks so cute 😳

[@lukeperrier]

Yeah its important to add signifiers of alterity to yr image when yr literally the oppressor

[@OblivionXE]

Wtf

[@gabeh1839]

@@lukeperrier yeah dude totally

[@rhubarbdude3347]

Damn, Daniel Lopatin with eyeliner boutta make me act up

[@secretdecoder]

It is as if one poured Boards of Canada, television of my early teens, and angsty metal on cassette from '87 into Google's Deep Dream convolutional neural network. The resulting music and accompanying video are so evocative and full of painful nostalgia for reasons that are hard to pinpoint.

[@MasDouc]

I love BoC but I have no idea where you're getting the influence based on this song. Sounds nothing like BoC at all.

[@secretdecoder]

@@MasDouc The intro choppy radio voices, the subtle tape hiss, the flute-like synth line hiding underneath at :10, the guitar treatment is like unto ChromaKey Dreamcoat, the whole heavily chorused things-going-in-and-out of pitch center, the vocoded vox ala A Beautiful Place Out in the Country, etc. It is like unto the Deep Dream AI re-processing that those elements and more and I really DIG IT.

[@kepe7323]

​@@secretdecoder Beautifully summarized. Both he and BoC generally stretch the limits of electronic music and their music operates in some abstract framework that defies genre boundaries.

[@pizzaguy8833]

​@@MasDoucsounds like ultra sad freescha to me

[@jesselivermore2291]

bizarre times need bizarre music

[@fpep5]

I'm going to need a whole lot more of whatever that was

[@Ali_Al_Saachez]

How I felt after listening to this on two tabs

[@benhoward204]

Do you ever imagine something you love, art for example, comtinuinf past its end or creating its own unique continuation of the themes, aesthetics and vibes that the original piece creates? I felt that sometimes. As if I know what i want from musix but i almost want it curated, marinated if I may, to what I personally like. Just me maybe...

[@CartoonMessLIVE]

I love this, but it honestly gave me nightmares the night after I watched it. Very affecting.

[@guillaumeblondiau]

- Safdie brothers: How fucking good do you want this video to be ? - Daniel: Yes

[@suikaibuki7620]

even if censored, the abject horror of the smartphone content is clear

[@stefangeorge2844]

Anyone else shed a tear to that solo?

[@jamrollz]

The moment he goes into his room and starts shredding, o-m-g.

[@waxpersons4695]

that footage of the elderly ape recognizing it's keep after so long is even sadder with Daniel's voice over it

[@piercings_]

Immediate top candidate for best music video of the year

[@bye5036]

I torrented the full video uncensored! Good music and history of music!

[@jamesd.6979]

This was all really emotionally painful and I'm not sure why.. Feels exactly like a bad mushroom trip (i've never had a good mushrooms trip so it's my only point of reference).

[@olsonbryce777]

I literally had to drive all the way out to Yosemite to enjoy mushrooms. Even then it still felt evil.

[@thefaulkness]

Micro dosing is the way forward

[@Genesis1music]

Accurate

[@jamesd.6979]

@@olsonbryce777 It makes me feel like I'm the Antichrist sometimes. Literally everyone I know has had amazing positive experiences with mushrooms. For me the "journey" feels more like a crucible than a positive experience.

[@ebob0531]

bro this music video is so awesome to watch on mushrooms. This whole album just is awesome on a mushroom trip

[@neilh237]

This could only be released during fall winter it's got that cold weather vibe fr

[@itsmesnacks]

fall is opn season!

[@danielmbc]

The main problem in hauntology is not only the cultural obsession that stops the progress but also the destruction of any believeable hope that can ever follow such a unique time like ours. Humanity came from large communities of disconnected individuals with little information to a huge connected collective of individuals with too much information to take in. We are really lost but never alone (in a way).

[@vostify]

the emotions the boy conveys with his face are incredible, especially in that last moment when the room breaks away and he loses himself in the guitar. amazing stuff

[@theofficialiaa]

wow the production assistants Zac Kubersky and Sam Dworkin did a really good job on this one !

[@laikainouterspace]

awesome dudes

[@BoroPrideHoorah]

Why?

[@theofficialiaa]

@@BoroPrideHoorah oh they're just my friends and I'm really proud of them lol

Yeah, and it's also going to be the end of their carreer. When you put thus exploit footage of young kid getting tortured, dismembered and killed for cheap edgy value, you'll get what's coming at you...

[@BoroPrideHoorah]

@@theofficialiaa Oh, very cool!

[@johnther]

Its been a week and this song is still stuck in my head. I will forever wonder how he got a hold of a cell phone.... That guitar solo though 🍻

[@GrimMetropolis]

The dying chimp always gets me

[@pipefx64]

one of the best music videos i've ever seen

[@brendenmongrain7357]

A lost generation connecting thru what defines our distance

[@MasDouc]

Welcome to feeling what every generation has felt at one point since the dawn of time.

[@marcel1372]

goes to his room in a rage and absolutely fuckin shreds i love this video so damn much

[@dapishev]

Favorite track from the album, especially because of the ending. Daniel you are amazing

[@eduardojurado8175]

Faith in Electronic Music Restored !

[@andrevitalpardue5097]

Does anybody else get oddly emotional watching this?

[@coolcatstudios3665]

So this is what the Safdies have been up to. Cool.

[@NirvaCx]

I'm happy I am alive to listen to a song this good.

[@TheShmekler]

One of the best music videos I've seen in decades!

[@interestandfun9190]

That last scene was beautiful

[@jalacii]

one of the greatest songs of all time

[@danielmbc]

'how do you play with the fabrication of your reality through your symbolical experiences of a plural yet individual past?'. this is a perfect representation of a present of lost futures forever haunted by historically symbolical 'ghosts'. It is post-modern, hyperrealistic and dualistic: the past haunts us and we haunt the past by trying to get it back.

[@z1reticuli]

The generation conflict being solved by a guitar shredding took me back to Michael Jackson's "Black or White".

[@SlyHikari03]

Same. Same vibes, it’s like a more visceral version.

[@maurofernando703]

We have basically an young boy curious about gore in his new device. The parents never understand, because they already forgotten about their adolescence and the young`s curiosity. The young man fells alone inside his own house, without support from his family. When the father brokes the cellphone, this marks the end of his confidence. So, he goes to the bedroom and plays guitar, until the bedroom becomes small and limited to his talent. In this moment, the walls explode and the boy plays to the wolrd, to the universe. But if you pay attention, the bedroom and some stuff is still there : he never leaved the lonely bedroom. The bedroom will be always inside of him.

[@Kevin-hw7ss]

Nice

[@henrypeterdean]

Its the path of the artist. beautiful

[@ebob0531]

I kinda thought it was reminiscing on television tropes. The kid is poorly understood, the parents are just the typical sit com parents. It also is meant to be a shitty VHS recording of television, the VHS has been recorded over so many times that the original content is lost. I thought the end scene was supposed to be funny. The kid goes into the bedroom upset and just plays guitar. If it was on a sitcom there would probably be a laugh track at that part. But it is showing what really would be there if it were real, a lot of soul and feeling in the guitar. That's why the walls fall, he is breaking the fourth wall by actually having depth beyond just being a character

[@kekobalderama4720]

One of my favorite videos of all time

[@danielmbc]

daniel's music has always been about lost futures through teen angst

[@lukeperrier]

Nostalgia is reactionary

[@starkingbiker]

The Safdies are gods, the combination of visual and auditive aesthetic art culminates into a deeply evokative state of mind. This is a perfect music video!

[@hevaw1]

The acting award for best guitar in this video goes to "'BC RICH EXTREME SERIES WARLOCK ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH FLOYD ROSE IN MATTE WHITE'".

[@quirkypurple]

I hope the Safdie Brothers and OPN keep doing work together. It's like a new wave movement of cinema and music.

[@zavadajanos]

EXACTLY. It's something new, exciting, deeply emotional and meaningful

[@ElliotOffen]

Lmao yeah making remixes for the weeknd to 17yr girls sure is innovating

[@misterpink808]

​​@@ElliotOffen Safdie Brothers and OPN? Huh? Lay off the crack pipe man

[@garrettdavis217]

Anyone from the Boston area knows the jingle by heart... "Magic one oh six point SEVEN! 🎵"

[@Owlero]

Literally how he came up with the name. He reversed SEVEN to NEVES then NEVER and there you go.

[@taylor-ruth.]

Woah cool to see some great scenes from Curtains 1983 here. Love that movie.

[@jss1ca3]

this feels like something you can only find in one lifetime

[@MasDouc]

There's a whole genre of this, it's called Hypnagogic pop. Dive in, you're welcome.

[@lazurskibold1877]

Yesterday I saw this video for the first time. Emotional visuals and unearthly melody impressed me to the core)

[@samanthaleighanderson7621]

I wondered "wtf" so I googled about Mama and her story is fascinating. Don't know what that scary ice skating person is about though... but I love this whole creation. Especially when the kid goes to play his guitar.

[@SomeKindOfScum]

The footage of the crone ice skating and all footage featuring the same old woman mask are from a 1983 horror film called Curtains!

[@sebastian98981]

Amazing art vision for this video of my favorite song of MOPN. :D

[@giovannimingrone]

Humanity needed that guitar solo

[@Perk_Set]

ok, now put up the version where that guitar solo at the end goes for another 3 minutes please :)

[@ash-fq4cg]

I'd actually prefer a fully electronic version without the guitar. Weird sides of the spectrum, aye?

[@sauce1302]

@@ash-fq4cg God the solo was beautiful, here's to hoping Daniel continues making more actual music!

[@ActualKaktus]

Nostalgia is creepy. Things are never quite as good as we remember.

[@HoshiKaynyne]

That guitar solo is so chilling...

[@vertyisprobablydead]

At first I thought they were clips from TV shows. All these all these all these all these all these all these actors were hired JUST FOR THIS SONG.

[@davidb4150]

I thought the same thing but the horror character on ice skates is from an actual 80s movie.

[@wormshero9891]

amazing video. perfect encapsulation of OPN's style.

[@Wuuzi]

This trope from media of parents destroying the unknown rather than attempting to fathom it, as if they see the existence of it as a defiance to their un-questioninable authority has always baffled me. I've had my things destroyed like that, out of petty showings of dominance. These actors play a perfect broken family. A violent narcissist father, a slightly sympathetic but ultimately enabling mother, and the estranged child who's identity struggles so hard to exist in this environment that it is forced to drastic measures, using every resource available to express themselves. This is a song about living tragedy, violence against the self, and a loss of trust. The skater, losing herself to survival, her trust of the safety of the park going away. Mama losing her driving will in the face of the beyond, her trust in life itself is gone. The teen, struggling to have a self at all, loses trust in the only ones they should be able to depend on. the common theme, is a complete submersion into the self. And thru all the violence from others, the world, or even life as a whole, identity thrives.

[@deathbycookies]

[@donalias812]

Wherever I see Lopatin and Safdie brothers I remember The Ballad Of Howie Bling. Fucking masterpiece

[@jigensylvain6833]

If you've ever listened to Tangerine Dream at some point, School Play can remind you a bit of their album Phaedra in some parts. Ngl, when I first watched Uncut Gems, I was thinking to myself, "What kind of Tangerine Dream worship is going on here?

[@slunkzilla]

OPN remains one of the most cutting-edge and unique musicians to date, both musically and visually

[@guuugnum_style2643]

I couldn’t even imagine that such beautiful music could appear in modern times.

[@gokupilo]

1:59 HERE COMES THE STRIKE

[@ayle1312]

Yeah this should probably be on vimeo with still life

[@Roopfert]

when dad catches you watching gore

[@ayle1312]

@「 dark cyberia 」 would it matter?

[@purplenumberF]

​@「 dark cyberia 」 looks like it to me but the only way to be sure would be to ask the safdies on twitter

@「 dark cyberia 」 yes it's real

[@bmbmbm19977]

I listen to this before going to bed every night

[@zavadajanos]

Now I want the Safdie brothers to make an analogue horror movie. Something like "I feel fantastic", Baphomet kun's videos, "Gemini Home Entertainment", or "The Mandela Catalogue", but feature length. The kind that has emotional depth to it.

[@sagbag856]

that guitar shredding solo was weeping and syncing with my tears. it's so beautiful

[@herettahuston9457]

This pushes the bar, amazing. Nothing is fixed.

[@jsangarita]

he is just so ahead of everything, so proud of being a OPN stan

[@hyalos6894]

This is one of my favorite artists. Especially taking the long road home

[@apeshly]

This morning, at 2am, I was awake, turned on rage and then heard this.

[@johnpfeifer5384]

I think this is visually one of the greatest things I've ever experienced, and that guitar solo at the end is everything. May this have Billions of Views...

[@angusjamesscott5084]

Wild journey as always Mr Lopatin! thankyou 💫

[@ther.i.p.talkpodcast8521]

Our new favorite music video.

[@joethelionjoethelion]

What is this beautiful piece?! Why Haven’t I heard it b4?!

[@maefield6016]

Nostalgia not as a mere aesthetic element. Nostalgia as a path to another levels of conscience and emotion.

[@marcosimioni_]

That's it bro

[@Kickballkixcereal]

The Safdie Brothers never fail at making something aesthetic and dreamy. I’d love to see them do a movie about the club kids of the 90s

[@goodmachines7743]

1:05 - The way he sings ‘lost’ here... it just feels.

[@kidarchitecture]

I knew something was up!! Directed by safdie, good times