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Dec 15, 2020 By Joey Arnone The Weeknd

Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin) has just shared a new video for his song “No Nightmares,” featuring The Weeknd (aka Abel Makkonen Tesfaye). The animated video was directed by artist Nate Boyce’s studio Reliquary House. Watch it below.

Boyce speaks on his collaboration with Lopatin in a press release: “Dan initially sent me an excerpt of ‘Fear of the Inexplicable’ by Rilke as a prompt to start working on our idea of a debased animation. Abel and Dan traverse psychoanalytically charged scenarios and spaces that evoke a lurid mix of art and architectural references. Eventually I started to associate the implications of the Rilke poem to the biblical story of the Binding of Isaac, an anxiety inducing story I hated as a kid that became a subtext for the latter half of the piece. Despite the fact that Abraham is thwarted by divine intervention, I was terrified by his incomprehensible zealotry and willingness to sacrifice his own child, who I identified with. This story ensured my eventual atheism, but also my ongoing fascination with how these archaic stories, symbols, and motifs have continued relevance even now, and in many ways still structure our experience. So, as it happens in the animation, this process of individuation through archetypal projection starts with heroic ideations that devolve into anxiety and fear, culminating in a carnivalesque mockery of the faith required to confront these fears.”

Lopatin’s most recent album, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, was released back in October on Warp. The Weeknd’s most recent album, After Hours, came out in March on XO/Republic.

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