Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals (Director's Cut)
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New album ‘Age Of’, out 1 June 2018.
‘Animals’ is taken from Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album ‘Garden Of Delete’, out now on Warp Records.
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Val Kilmer
Directed & Edited by Rick Alverson
Story by Daniel Lopatin & Rick Alverson
Ryan Zacarias - Producer
Drew Bienemann - DP
Alex Kornreich - Steadicam
Julien Janigo - Gaffer
Paulo Arriola - 1st AC
Jess Eisenman - HMU
Dan Finfer - Home Owner
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I love Val Kilmer. So cool that he agreed to this piece of art.
He's always been an art first type of guy
Yes so cool he agreed to 5k to sit on a bed in a jumpsuit with his eyes closed for 45 seconds.
@@joe4171 It is.
@@joe4171 i guess you've never been to a set... its a 4 minutes video, so i'm guessing a full day filming lol
@@joe4171for The Wolf of Wllstreet: "Wanting to work with Martin Scorsese, Jonah Hill took a pay cut by being paid the S.A.G. minimum, which was $60,000."
I'm only wondering this might bea similar case
i find it insane how val kilmer is only one layer of separation away from vocaloids
If I remember correctly, he said in an interview that this song's conceptual goal was to convey both the idea and feeling of if one were to be observed by a being of higher intelligence like an advanced Cyborg/Alien that were to be so above our level of understanding-- that it wouldn't even bother to interact with you (even if it had the capability of killing you). It would be essentially beneath them to invest interest due to how quickly they would assess you and still want nothing to do with you in the end. Like deciding not to squash an ant.
Although that may be the fundamental context of the song's concept, it's a very reflective theme that ties into depression and the existential things we can end up thinking about that makes us feel like inevitably small and insignificant beings in the universe.
Imagine all the struggles in your mind through your entire life just instantly recognized by a higher intelligence and deemed strange, contradictory, and ironic to the bigger picture when it's viewed by someone/something with much higher perception....
In this case of being observed as a species that only has so much time to live in the first place--it's ironic to think that many of us still use that time overthinking, stressing, and contemplating horrible things that would end up cutting our limited experience of life off short. Especially when we could be reacting to our lives differently by living to our fullest potential and doing the most we can in our living moments.
It's a depressing thought to realize your life would be looked over, ignored, or even deemed insignificant to a higher intellegence...However, its also intriguing to reflect upon this perspective in realizing what a gift of life we have, even if it's limited, and how we should choose to spend this life wisely instead of suffering and/or causing our own self-destruction.
Makes you wonder why we haven't been visited by higher intelligence in the first place. Maybe they already realize how our race as a whole sees and reacts to our inevitable death and temporary suffering when our lives are only a blink of an eye in the history of the universe. Possibly once our human race matures and mutually agrees to use our lives to benefit the quality of life here on Earth, the chances of higher intelligent lifeforms visiting us (if they exist) would be much higher.
What interview is this from?
Similar to the ending of 2001.
Why turn this into a sci-fi projection? It's silly to assume that X or Y race has a peculiar kind of knowledge that you could call "superior". All knowledge, as far as science has it, is embodied. How can you even begin to assume what they think without knowing what they're made of? Why should it always be a case of higher and lower and not just profoundly different?
this is a really beautiful/inspiring interpretation, sean
Thank you
i don't know why i can't stop returning to this.
dabzvapelord Same Tho
it's been nine years! i still come back to this album.
SAME
"We sit on the side
And observe all the animals.
I try not to laugh
'Cause I know
It's the end of us.
I fry from the heat
But the sun
Isn't killing me.
We run from our death;
When we cum
Are we really free?
Primal rage.
Life in a cage
It's nothing
(I can live)
You sit in your throne
You decide
"Off with his head"
She kneels at your feet
She feels cold;
"Something more to eat?"
Queen dies in her sleep.
There's no time.
King must not weep.
We look at our phone
Every morning.
Battery is dead.
Kiss the sky.
Tear in your eye.
It's nothing
I can live without.
Thank you!
Wow
Is this sampled from somewhere?
Thank you my friend
@@TheGVA94 the synthetic voice is from the Plogue Chipspech
This feels so personal.
"Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up."
"but doctor..."
@@m_crowley6674 _"I _*_am_*_ Pagliacci."_
Doctor laughs. Great joke.
Roll on snare drum, curtains.
Oneohtrix Point Never is one of my favorite electronic artists ever, there's nobody else like him
What about people like:
Machine girl,
Death dynamic shroud,
or even Arca?
@@orateusdijin6557 Arca is rather unique himself and not much like OPN. Machine Girl and DDS are complete trash though and nothing like OPN
BURIAL
It feels like everything I'm scared of. Growing old, unaccomplished. Still holding onto a delusional fantasy of youth, outwardly appearing desperate to my peers. My hair is greying, my clothes can't mask my insecurity. I turned into "that guy", the one we all joked we'd never let ourselves become, silently fearing the reality that maybe we would, and all we had to combat our fears were empty promises that "we were better than that". Sad. Lonely. Beaten down by life. Living in a grey house in a grey room and sleeping in a bed with uncomfortably cheap covers. And the worst part? We all knew that the only reason we would ever let this happen is our own complacency. Did I try hard enough? Did I ever try at all? I had everything in the world and all the time I could have asked for but I did nothing with it. Every moment is a moment too late. There was never a flash of realization, a sudden glimpse into what you had become. There was instead a long drawn out cry in the form of a single thought. You know the one. The one you pushed back in your head while you drank, or slept, or worked your 9-5. While you put off your goals or resigned yourself for the last time to failure. While you attempted to hopelessly grasp the fading embers of joy that you once could feel so warm against your body. That fleeting sensation. It's that one thought you conditioned yourself to neglect through years of being unable to face the pain. The pain of your existence meaning less and less in a world that's increasingly cruel and unforgiving. The pain of losing your passion. The pain of change. Of time passing. Of the recognition that yes, this is it. There is no more hidden behind the curtain. The full picture is in abstract and is what you make of it, nothing more or less. So what did you make of it?
Now that curtain is closing. And that thought is the only one you have anymore.
Did I try hard enough?
Am I happy?
Did I make it count?
And you reading this. I know it's easy to point at this and call it all sorts of things. Pointless, stupid, hopelessly edgy. I don't want your approval anyway. I just want you to be honest with yourself in a way that I've never been able to be: Would you point and laugh at this because it's stupid? Because it's easy to laugh at someone opening up emotionally? Because if you laugh, you distance yourself from this loser who clearly isn't happy? If so, what does that say about you? Maybe what I said hurt in a way that you don't like to think about, or maybe you felt nothing. Both are fine. I laughed at people trying to open up before, people talked about things that I "already knew". I didn't need someone to tell me life is hard and unfair. So I laughed at them, and in laughing I said "I'll never become that unhappy person, because I'm better than that". I'm sure what I said isn't news to you at all, but before you turn your head and roll your eyes, ask yourself those questions. Don't push them back anymore. Don't laugh or shrug it off. Do something. Also, thanks.
dude stop
It is never, ever too late.
The best time to start is 20 years ago. The second best is now.
every moment is precious
You REALLY expect me to read all that SHIT, by YOU?
What if you can't even find goals anymore?
This track is absolute terror and beauty.
loving the distorted vocal work
Val inspires me to this day.
I've looked up to him as an actor since I was young.
Still, after the toll that throat cancer has taken on his body, his spirit shines through, even in stillness sitting at the edge of a bed.
If the phrase "Oh, you know, I'm doing fine" was a song.
This is seriously the type of song that'd be played at the end of a game where you have to accept defeat to complete the game
That is a really good idea
Halo reach!!
@@andree2449 Good point! Also I feel like this might actually fit if you tried to match the final fight cutscene with the song.
Nier: automata is your friend here.
I won't spoil it.
Soma ending
One of the greatest videos of all time
That image of Val in front of the peaceful Gauguin painting is so haunting. It makes the feeling that paradise is distant and illusory, and that we will always be left wanting incredibly real
Unsettling, loved it
Krishtie Mofazzal
i didn't expect any of this but this is genuinely terrifying and i love it
this reminds me of a lot of those 60s structural films which were meant to convey emotions without dialogue, scene or any actual form, instead using repeated sound or colors. this is that. rick alverson is a fucking genius. didn't think this would fit at first but watching it over and over i realized this is literally the perfect music video for a 'silently catastrophic ballad'. fuckin'...fuckin' well done, you three.
prefectly said. between your comment, the video and the music i have tears down my face, that hasn't happened to me in a long time. thank you for that.
MrDivinePotato you need a hug there? :(
thanks for the offer :) it was very relieving actually, it must have released a good bit of tension.
It is such a fascinating little piece. It has a really uncomfortable, voyeuristic quality to it - for me, I am reminded of a lot of postmodern art and theory - such as Cindy Sherman's Film Stills - and texts such as Laura Mulvey's Visual and Other Pleasures which explore the medium of film as an art form that causes a gross kind of enjoyment from both indulging in voyeurism and narcissistically relating the self to the human image on screen. In a way, this feels like a sort of meditation on those ideas.
This track terrifies me. Fills me with a sense of impending doom lol
This track has always given me a sense of calm and finality. So completely different it's weird
Is weird to see an aphex twin fan saying this
This is making me very emotional. Very well done.
The more I listen to this, the more moving it is. It's really sad-sounding. And beautiful.
I'm connecting to this on a level I don't even understand..
The weirdest Nike commercial I've ever seen
"Nike. Always fits you - even in the most depressed times"
MrLennyShelby you amerikinski western spy with your nike suit. Adidas is superior in any way, blin!
MrLennyShelby KC
nike. "just do nothing"
hahaha you dmb fuck !!
I recently attempted to kill myself by severing a blood vessel in my neck, this song really made me reflect on my life and everything that was going on, both before and after I did that stupid thing. I know that a lot of people listening to this might be going through something similar and might be thinking that hurting themselves is a viable option, but the fact is, after I was lying on the floor and I saw all that blood, I reflected on the same themes that this song deals with and while nothing was different and I still thought much of the world's potential and beauty is dampened by so much willful destruction, I realized that the solution is not to off myself but to be able to appreciate that beauty and that ugliness that pretty much ends up being beautiful when you really open yourself to the light and darkness.
It's funny, I always thought that the kinds of tales such as Daedalus and Icarus and all that stuff about moderation was just a bunch of bullshit, that moderation was a way of selling out, that I needed to be strongly against some things and strongly for some things, I guess I've always been too extreme in my considerations, but I have found that I can attain this moderation in extremes and that kinda fits me and allows me to go on.
I know it sounds oxymoronic, moderation in extremes, but what I mean by that is that I can appreciate both the good and the bad, if there is such a thing, the beautiful and the ugly, the pleasurable and the painful, take it all and live through it, in a way BE it, don't limit yourself to a single facet of this amazing beautiful, ugly and chaotic universe, there is so much out there to experience, don't close yourself and then maybe close yourself a bit sometimes, learn and take it in, love and hate, fucking live and then die. Don't let this pitiful emulation of life that's been presented to you fool you into thinking that is all there is, because it's not, if you have not found what makes you feel alive, you have not searched long or hard enough, so cut life some slack 'cause death is always coming and you're going to experience that too, don't worry.
I still love this song and can't help but come back to it. Don't take my words as absolute, I'm just trying to maybe help someone who is in a similar situation as I am. This is the internet, take everything with a grain of salt, or two, read between the lines. Take what you like and dump the rest. Don't be so hard on yourself, this is just a comment on UA-cam. Move on.
You've come here to try and write a message from the bottom of your heart in the pursuit of helping someone, so I want to let you know that you've succeeded. I always wander through comment sections of similar music videos hoping to find someone who thinks more or less like me or who has something wise to tell the world. Even though your comment is from 11 months ago, I want to thank you for reminding me one more time what life's all about, for reminding me how life can be so much more than darkness and tragedy. It's just like you said, everything must be moderated. With this thought, of letting go, of living calmly one moment a time, step-by-step, is what makes me enjoy being alive, makes me enjoy the chaotic but somewhat harmonical universe. Thank you once again and I hope you have been doing great the past 11 months.
Thank you for that beautiful message
I’m happy you managed to get out of that place, hoping for the best for you
El Chebracanador Vitruvio - Bless you man. 🙏🏻
i sure hope ur right.
Moderation, so thats the word i havent thought of to sum up what i dont or do feel. Im too young to be afraid of newness or change, & adjustment hopefully will help. We arent a washed up or out generation (80s) my struggle or change for the worse didnt see coming, along with the struggle of entirety of everything same time, i hope i come out mature and sane, & everyone else. Still with the naiveness of the old world & renewed happiness.
Val is one of my all time-favorite actors. Grew up in the 90's watched all of his films. Such a shame his fans don't get to him much onscreen anymore. A very underrated actor. Stay healthy, man.
Side Note: I would rather die young & strong than become old & weak
"It's better to burn out than to fade away" - Kurt Cobain.
THE BLACK VOMIT. Neil young said it first then it was in that highlander movie I forget which one
this is his Birdman.
This is one of the greatest songs ever created by a human being.
one of my fav songs, i had no idea it had a "video"
i dont mean to technical or specific but: how much do you think they paid Val to sit there? $5000? $15000? did he listen to the song before? what did they talk about before the shoot? where in LA did they eat? did he sleep in that hotel room? what books are those? what model tv is that? is everything ok?
yes
Nothing is ok, except for New Caledonian crows...
how the video creates images for forced breathing & facial-muscle movements are super reminiscent of anxiety. Val Kilmer is great, props to the editor
This makes me feel so alone, this song i think is best listened to late at night or midnight (where i thankfully originally found it).
this made me feel lonely and insecure about my future, man what the fuck?!
Everything human inmates from feelings of loneliness and insecurities about the future.
this is life. wait till you over 30
what ? life will get better after i'm 30?
Phantom nope :)
fataxel =/
if there's beauty in depression, Oneohtrix has it
Many ppl asking what the video means but actually I think same as you. Beauty in depression.
it's about the thought of Cyborgs observing humanity like we do with animals in a Zoo. and about them maybe just ignoring us, because we are, at least when you consider their intelligence, not interesting enough.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
there is nothing beautiful about *experiencing depression
exactly :)
We are hearing what music supposed to sounds like in 2117, Thanks Oneohtrix!
Val Kilmer is one of the last people I would ever expect to see in a music video, but I'm not complaining. I've become a bit of a fan of his within the last year or so :)
this was really beautiful
The painting in the background is 'The Fruit Harvest' by Paul Gauguin. "In the case of The Fruit Harvest, completed a little later, this gold-colored ground runs through the whole picture. It glows like a divine aura around the heads of the three female figures, and in the lower half of the picture intermingles with nature as warm patches of sunlight. Even if the carefully balanced composition gives rise to a rhythm of light and dark, of vertical accents and various rounded forms, the overall impression is one of stillness and great calm. The existential questions “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” do not present themselves here. With The Fruit Harvest, Gauguin has created a place where such concerns are no longer relevant-a vision of the paradise that, despite feverish searching, he never found in his lifetime."
hm. i was imagining more "derelict ps1-era castle, mutant king with no subjects." i guess "wes anderson presents: val kilmer drifting in and out of consciousness (we just learned final cut)" is kind of close?
i dont know wtf you just said but i do kinda like it
super mega accurate
this has a Wes Anderson feel? it's not nearly colorful enough... it's more like Abel Ferrara to me
agreed, this looks nothing like Wes Anderson's work
I only just found this song, and heard about Onetrix point never. I can’t believe I was living a lie. This is imo one of the most beautiful songs ever made.
Man. This is beautiful!
this guy worked so hard an star from his childhood is now another subject for his beautiful art
This is why I love Rick Alverson. He gets to do a music video with Val Kilmer and he just films him sitting there and fucks around with the footage
Holy shit! Rick Alverson directed this, didn't even realize.
i'll never forget the way this song went with it.
If Stanley Kubrick directed a Nike commercial back in the day
David Lynch
@@kurta123 true
Rick Alverson
Hahatrrrrrrrrxcxczzz
Cuts you deep !!!!! Awesome video to this tune love it 💗
back again. this is beautiful
I can't quite explain it but I see beauty and life in this video.. Somehow makes me calm
Hezuz it calms me too. It seems most people are made uncomfortable by this so its nice to see I'm not alone
This is one of the most psychedelic things I've ever seen. I remember feeling pretty mind blown by it the first time I listened to this song and watched this video. its like really dizzying and the strange noises and production fill you with anxiety because of how alien it all sounds, I mean the vocals literally sound like an alien transmission, and yet the progression of the chords is so moving and sad, so its like a powerful combo of both feeling intensely sad and bewildered. and then on top of the music, the visuals just amplify the music 10x, the strobes fuck with your vison and cause literal hallucinations lol, and the red screen brings you to the view of the mans closed eyes in the lighted room (super fucking trippy) and then I get the sense of a compelling performance from a man who looks like hes just sitting there dozing off lol completely tranced like he just took a big ol hit of DMT or something lol and the way he looks and is dressed is just so uncanny, like an old man who is trapped in a memory from the late 80's lol that just replays over and over, he puts on that same jogging suit everyday, and just sits there everyday, loosing himself. very potent, I just love it.
Damn! Shivers all over my body. Strong melody
Daniel is a fucking genius and this video/song proves it.
me crying: oneohtrix, thanks, tones of thanks
haven't felt like this in a long time.
no words for this
wee love you Val !
This sound.. properly conveys my mood.
Great acting, Val
Man it's hard to believe this guy saved Gotham City from certain destruction long years past.
That ending was very David Lynch
Can't stop watching, totally beautiful and I hope Val Kilmer makes a comeback one of the best actors of all time. This song and video and Val Kilmer so perfect and in a way nostalgic makes me think of life which I'm always doing anyways but in a dream way like looking back at it all. Val Kilmer was always one of the deeper actors, you could always tell there was always something deeper going on with him under the surface and that's one fo the things that made him so great, he's mysterious and ancient for sure an old soul.
Val kimer freaking awesome
Set in the same universe as Batman Forever
The Dark Nike
+yngccntHahahahahhahahhahha
looks like he got hit by that boiling acid
Jack Rae noooôo
Nah, it's actually just Val Kilmer promoting Nike while on 7 grams of mushrooms.
To those asking about the meaning: the song is mainly about not understanding our presence and the connections we have to the world and each other.
In the lyrics, first it's people laughing at the animals in a zoo, unaware of their own limitations trapping them. Second is a king getting over his queen's death to rule his kingdom. Third is being on your phone instead of talking or being present with your partner.
The video represents a 4th perspective: a man completely closed off from reality and stuck in the past, wearing an outfit from another time and endlessly reminiscing in a futile attempt to go back.
All that being said, I hate the strobe effects. It makes me nauseous and I don't see what it adds to the video.
I want this to be played at my funeral
Need a link for the red nike tracksuit in the description
Cool.
my favorite track on the album! great video too!
I find it wonderful that with so little I can convey so many emotions. I feel the need to give her a tender hug and tell her that everything is going to be alright.
And people actually thing legalizing ranch is a good idea smfh
Francis how could say something so controversial yet so brave?
Speaking of which, look up Blarf
Bird up?
SUPERB
Colin Lacativa tomo
these days when i'm to watch this song here; i may place one palm in front of my mouth like someone that is witnessing an accident quite slowly. Since i'm also getting old you know. Good art that is
the best music makes me do that
this song is haunting me forever
The end of time at the bottom of a glass.
Way, way beyond Aphex Twin. This is where Richard David James and Chris Cunningham should be these days. Amazing.
This is an astonishing work of art, both the video and the song. The song fills me with a deep sense of crushing sadness and melancholy for things gone that can never be gotten again, but then the video brings to bear the very real sense that time itself is running out and I'm going to get old and die and it will feel like no time has passed from this point in my life to then. Jesus fucking Christ I'm terrified now. I don't want to die. I'm bawling my eyes out and scared to get up from my bed. Why does everyone have children? What's the point? Set them on the same ride I'm on where you come into this world and the only thing you absolutely must do is get sick, feel pain, and die. If you brought a child into this world, you're not only their creator but their murderer too, bc had they never been born they'd have never had to die. Think about it... :/
I understand your concern or rather your love for life itself, which is so valuable. Three spontaneous recommendations to possibly extend your life would be not to smoke, not to get restless in a negative sense and not to get involved too deeply in esoteric movements who teach or better said who mislead you to deny necessary and responsible medical treatment.
This song got me to cry, as well as deadmau5 - The Veldt and SUITE 02
This is not about death, about slow dying instead. Everyone who sinergyzes with the video should watch apocalypse now redux right now
You killed me.
You make truly beautiful music
This. Is wonderful.
You want the meaning of this video?
The meaning is: how does this video make you feel?
Real. I want to know how everyone feels, I can't stop asking
The meaning cannot by well explained by normal humans just with words
@@CheshireAndAliceee I know EXACTLY what you mean. I have this heavy longing to know how everyone is in this thread as I listen to the song and read the comments. I want to see them & hear them... and, connect.
I'll have what he's having.
Cancer?!?
yeeaahhzz He doesn't have cancer. At least according to him, he doesn't. I'm assuming he's an authority on his having or not having cancer. lol
***** Damn, didn't know he was into that schtuff.
Oh, good grief - he is NOT a Scientologist. He is a Christian Scientist.
DXM. conveniently found at your local wal mart
That was incredible!
Why all the dislikes? All of opns music videos drag on a long time and are simple in nature. How is this any different?
I really miss Val, i wish i could see him in more movies. He amazed me with how versatile he is. He makes actors today look like the utter shit they are. Its just too bad i can't see more performances from him like from what i loved in Top Secret, The Doors, or The Saint. The fact he is able to play a roll where he can be serious, funny, and dramatic is incredible..and always so believable.
siberus48 to cheer u up a bit, he will be in the Top Gun sequel alongside Tom Cruise :)
Bas J. that sounds terrible :( i never liked top gun much haha
Hopesfallout Huh?
Hopesfallout Okay...i hope you feel better. Have a nice day man, cheer up.
Hopesfallout well you know that's just like your opinion man
It's like electric acid rock, except it never comes back with a good pick up.
David Lynch and drugs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! absolutely perfect
Val Kilmer recently posted something in his Facebook page where he says he doesn't have cancer. I hope he is doing good he is a great actor. This video is somber but kind of cool. Life is short no matter how long you live, enjoy life but mostly give love because that's all that you can take with you, the love of others and the fond memories.
I don't want to grow old.
ZA_Survivalist
he is clearly wearing make up ...
Not _all_ of us!
Now excuse me while I snort this line of anthrax
weswally1 ur already dead
ZA_Survivalist \!£R
Masterpiece
LOVED the lyrics!!!
It's like listening to a printer singing an Aria and it's beautiful.
this is amazing
I wish you the best val!
Incredible
holy shit it val kilmer
AWESOME!!!
Finally we can see the vids from Warp rec. in Germany from today, because GEMA has found an agreement with youtube after 6(!) years regarding the payment of the Artists.
We caught the disease, by the knees, from which it went and spread.
We choked from the cheese, which to some, felt like a release.
Dear, come find me please, because I swear, I can no longer bear it.
*so good*
this song is fucking amazing
OMFG VAL !!!!!! 🤯🤯
This is very dramatic I love it
Unsettling.
When is eccojams vol 2 gonna come out?