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Oneohtrix Point Never: 'Problem Areas'

What on earth is Takeshi Murata’s ‘Problem Areas’ video supposed to mean? In a kind of postmodern still life, the director juxtaposes IRL objects with images rendered through CGI, at times making it difficult to tell between the two. Some items are distorted by a sheen of the uncanny — dice stacked like Escher steps, marble-white Pringles, a chrome banana. Is this the aftermath of a house party in ‘The Sims’? Concept sketches from the production of ‘Mirror’s Edge’? A critique of 21st Century consumerism? Whatever it is, the video emphasises OPN’s knack for animating the inanimate, calling to mind his outspoken dream of one day scoring a ‘Toy Story’ film.

  • Sam Davies