This isn't a music video pretending to be art. Nara's world, distorted, childlike, vaguely wrong, moves exactly as Shonen Knife wants it to, which means the visuals don't decorate the song, they ARE the song. One minute of pure collision between punk energy and gallery sensibility, made by someone who understands both completely.

Artist Yoshitomo Nara directs this music video for "Banana Chips," a song by the punk band Shonen Knife. The track appears on the band's 1998 album Happy Hour, and Nara's link to that record goes beyond the video: he also designed the album's artwork. The result is a single-episode piece that pairs a visual artist's direction with a punk band's song.