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A Brief, Poetic Statement on Transhumanism via Elijah Wood and Flying Lotus

“Tiny Tortures,” directed by David Lewandowski and starring Frodo himself (sorry bud), is expectantly sad and beautiful.

Not sure if this any more or less conventional than Flying Lotus’ earlier 2012 videos—for the title track off his newish Until the Quiet Comes and " and the Erykah Badu collaboration “See Thru To U”—but the most-excellent producer of post-hip hop antigravity otherwise known as Steven Ellison has more faith in the medium than most any other music brain I can think of right now.

“Tiny Tortures,” directed by David Lewandowski and starring Frodo himself (sorry bud), is expectantly sad and beautiful, a proper analog of the producer’s own slow-motion dance between technology/mechanization and the intensely human: an acid-dream of dancefloors and drum-machines dissolving into embryonic fluid.

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