A bit of info on the CGI. It's not the official video for the song. It is originally titled 'Aparatus', was made sometime in the 2000s by a Polish guy called 'Marcin Sławek' who basically used this tune in it (or rather made a video for it). From the site "polishanimations": "He was born in 1981. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His animated films (among others Aparatus to the music of Aphex Twin, 2006) received several awards at festivals: Onedotzero, Animago, Stash, Viedram, Pictoplasma and OFAFA." Personally, I vaguely remember that there was a contest in Poland for best CGI video for young individuals to find talents, and Tomasz Baginski (then famous in Poland after Oscar nomination for his animation 'The Cathedral') was among the jury. I think the works were rendered mainly in 3dsmax, and I clearly remember that while some were really good, this one was unique, in its own league and won the competition.
Spot on metaphor. We are like this robot - came here by some random act, then try to live part by program part by trying, just constantly draining our reservers until we break free or die, same thing. This video must be like topest in philosophical category.
my drukqs favourites were always 54 cymru beats and ziggomatic 17. I was never much a fan of vordhosbn. You've really helped me see this track in a new light :) glad I watched this!! Nothing like reliving that feeling of discovering AFX for the first time
I think this is the first ever Aphex Twin tune I ever heard, through this very video. Someone referenced him in 2008 or so and this video happened to come up when I ran a search.
@@synthmalicious7541 It's not official, but it might as well be. It was done by a student for a Polish film school or something. Pretty impressive, to be honest.
there was a 3D animation show in Poland called Animaster around 2006 and this was the winning entry, the show was created to a degree by Tomasz Bagiński (you might know him from the Witcher tv show, but he has a long list of achievements in animation), this was never the official video
This video is just simply AMAZING. I would even go as far as me saying that finally, a remake of the original video is BETTER than the original. I love every minute of this.
Agree with some of the comments about the machine trying to kill itself. To me, the green fluid is providing life support to the rusting machine who just wants to die. The machine is trying to shut its life support off but the fluid just keeps coming. At the end the fluid is exhausted and the machine is relieved that death has come. This is juxtaposed by the moth, whose life is tragically short (born at the start, already dying by the end). A nice comment about euthanasia in my opinion.
@VampiraAma I don't know which of us is closer to what the creator of the video intended, but I interpreted it as if it was trying to press the right buttons so it could not get damaged by the traps, and get more of the green liquid, but that it wasn't doing very well.
i think that it kills itself because of the butterfly... the butterfly can go everywhere it wants while the machine can't move....when it realizes that it kills itself
@Velingor A paradox is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. A robot doesn't live so it's pseudo-immortal, also incapable of the will to die. So a robot intent on facilitating its own destruction, How is this not a paradox?
why would you put a robot in an empty warehouse? seems like it used to have a purpose and now it feels pointless and, well, wants to end it's life. But then they show the moth, an organic life form, that also has no inherent mechanical purpose but seems to be fighting for its life after it's injured by the robot. The point that I pull off from this video is very nihilst. You live despite the emptiness of purpose, and for some (like the robot), it is perceived as a painful existence.
