Oneohtrix Point Never – Sticky Drama
Oneohtrix Point Never – Sticky Drama (2015)
Directed by: Jon Rafman & Daniel Lopatin
Nine days from the release of the new widely-anticipated Oneohtrix Point Never album Garden of Delete, we can reveal its lead single, Sticky Drama and accompanying film by Jon Rafman and Daniel Lopatin.
The short film / music video is released in two parts – Sticky Drama (Prologue) and Sticky Drama (Music Video).
Sticky Drama has a cast of over 35 children, the film tunes into this musical ambition, bringing to life a fantastical world in which characters are on a quest, battling for dominance and in a race against time to archive past histories. Inspired by the costumes, staging and extended improvised narratives of Live Action Role Play (LARP), the video reflects the vivid, often violent world of children’s imaginations and games, as well as extending both artists’ ongoing investigation into appropriation, the nature of memory and the horror of data loss.
The piece was originally commissioned by the Zabludowicz Collection in conjunction with Warp Records. An alternative edit of it has been showing as part of Rafman’s multi-format exhibition currently showing in London.
Sticky Drama follows I Bite Through It and Mutant Standard as advance music from the album, as well as an intricate web of abstract interviews, websites, snatches of film and audio.
Oneohtrix Point Never also takes a new live performance developed with long-time collaborator Nate Boyce to select cities. He plays Village Underground on Sunday with Gazelle Twin supporting.
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER LIVE:
7/11 Turin, Club 2 Club, IT
8/11 London, Village Underground, UK [SOLD OUT]
9/11 Brussels, Orangerie, BE
10/11 Berlin, Berghain, DE
20/11 New York, Villain, US [SOLD OUT]
23/11 Vancouver, Venue, CA *
24/11 Seattle, Neumos, US *
25/11 Portland, Doug Fir lounge, US *
27/11 San Francisco, The Independent, US *
28/11 Los Angeles, The Regent Theater, US *
3/12 Tokyo, Liquidroom, JP
4/12 Osaka, Fanj Twice, JP
6/12/15 Seoul, Sang Sang Madang, KR
19/2/16 Sonar Reykjavik, IS
27/2/16 Sonar Stockholm, SE
(* w/ James Ferraro)
Download Sticky Drama Production Stills (credit: Jon Rafman & Daniel Lopatin)
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
‘Garden of Delete’
WARP266
13th November 2015
01. Intro
02. Ezra
03. ECCOJAMC1
04. Sticky Drama
05. SDFK
06. Mutant Standard
07. Child of Rage
08. Animals
09. I Bite Through It
10. Freaky Eyes
11. Lift
12. No Good
