“A kind of revolutionary spirit but back to nature post apocalyptic motif is what ‘Preoccupation’ is about. It peels back the curtain on the creative process and makes it more about that verses the finished product (we only see the viewers’ reactions, not the final screening of the “film” itself).Ĭhris Steward (aka Black Marble) had these notes to share about “Preoccupation”: The video shows an empty world filled with only a group of collaborators in the process of making a video and subsequently sharing the fruits of their creativity with one another. That eerie-ness and cautious optimism is captured beautifully and perfectly in Black Marble’s latest music video for “Preoccupation” directed by mixed-media collective Crack Cloud. At the crossroads of despair and hopelessness and optimism that a better and brighter future is just around the corner, it is an eerie space to occupy.

We are all experiencing such an oddly specific moment in time right now.