Newman Wolf’s “Sealand” Video Is Where Techno Meets The Tree Of Life

In the video for L.A. producer Newman Wolf's "Sealand," the camera calmly cruises through every nook and cranny of a lived-in home: a retro kitchen, a backyard full of kitschy sculptures, a hive of bees clinging to a fence. Taken together, these shots are like a wordless but intimate family scrapbook, shot with a Malick-like stillness. Over email, Wolf tells The FADER that the Ezra Ewen-directed video was shot entirely at his grandmother's house in Los Angeles. Watching one sun-dappled scene fold into the next reminds me of visiting my own childhood home just before it was torn down: a little sad and nostalgic, but also oddly serene.

While the electronic track was created "entirely out of samples from YouTube," Wolf wanted the video to be more revealing. "[The house] is somewhere very personal to me. Pieces of my life and family are seen throughout. The climax of the video, the ending shot with the flashing panels, is a sculpture my dad and my aunt made together in the '70s. "Sealand" is the A-side to his soon to be self-released single; if you're in the L.A. area, he's performing on May 7th at California Institute of the Arts.

Lead Image: Ezra Ewen