Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals (Director's Cut) 

I love Val Kilmer. So cool that he agreed to this piece of art.

If the phrase "Oh, you know, I'm doing fine" was a song.

This feels so personal.

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.

"Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up."

This is my favourite Oneohtrix song. I felt so many emotions hearing this for the first time. It’s kinda creepy and unsettling, depressing, yet powerful. This experimental song is near perfect in my opinion

this made me feel lonely and insecure about my future, man what the fuck?!

i don't know why i can't stop returning to this.

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

"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.

I'm connecting to this on a level I don't even understand..

Never heard anything like this...it has such a creepy yet sad and emotional tone to it. Like you’re taking a step back and looking at your life and what could’ve been done differently. Thinking back to all the regrets of the past and wanting to fix those mistakes... That’s the vibe I get from this song

The weirdest Nike commercial I've ever seen

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?

This track terrifies me. Fills me with a sense of impending doom lol

loving the distorted vocal work

Oneohtrix Point Never is one of my favorite electronic artists ever, there's nobody else like him

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.

One of the greatest videos of all time

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.

i didn't expect any of this but this is genuinely terrifying and i love it

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

This track is absolute terror and beauty.

Unsettling, loved it

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 RU-vid. Move on.

That ending was very David Lynch

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?

This is making me very emotional. Very well done.

If Stanley Kubrick directed a Nike commercial back in the day

We are hearing what music supposed to sounds like in 2117, Thanks Oneohtrix!

Daniel is a fucking genius and this video/song proves it.

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."

if there's beauty in depression, Oneohtrix has it

Man. This is beautiful!

Holy shit! Rick Alverson directed this, didn't even realize.

Cuts you deep !!!!! Awesome video to this tune love it 💗

The more I listen to this, the more moving it is. It's really sad-sounding. And beautiful.

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).

my favorite track on the album! great video too!

The end of time at the bottom of a glass.

Cool.

i find it insane how val kilmer is only one layer of separation away from vocaloids

haven't felt like this in a long time.

no words for this

And people actually thing legalizing ranch is a good idea smfh

Set in the same universe as Batman Forever

wee love you Val !

That was incredible!

Damn! Shivers all over my body. Strong melody

Great acting, Val

This is one of the greatest songs ever created by a human being.

You make truly beautiful music

i'll never forget the way this song went with it.

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.

LOVED the lyrics!!!

I'll have what he's having.

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.

SUPERB

this guy worked so hard an star from his childhood is now another subject for his beautiful art

every time i listen to this song it makes me so sad but i love it.

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

Why all the dislikes? All of opns music videos drag on a long time and are simple in nature. How is this any different?

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. Is wonderful.

I wish you the best val!

AWESOME!!!

I want this to be played at my funeral

amazing

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 :)

You want the meaning of this video? The meaning is: how does this video make you feel?

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.

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... :/

It's like electric acid rock, except it never comes back with a good pick up.

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

I don't want to grow old.

this is amazing

this song is haunting me forever

Awesome!!!!

This sound.. properly conveys my mood.

Incredible

Brilliant!

*so good*

love Val Kilme

me crying: oneohtrix, thanks, tones of thanks

Man it's hard to believe this guy saved Gotham City from certain destruction long years past.

this was really cool

OMFG VAL !!!!!! 🤯🤯

holy shit it val kilmer

Need a link for the red nike tracksuit in the description

how cool...

I can't quite explain it but I see beauty and life in this video.. Somehow makes me calm

Unsettling.

I love Val Kilmer

This is very dramatic I love it

INSANE

Masterpiece

Extraordinary

gran bel pezzo!!!

Hauntingly Beautiful~ #ART