Anadol & Marie Klock - Quand le grenier aura pris feuis
music video
Premiered by Kaput Magazine
2nd Jury Prize at MuVi 2025 Awards by 71. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Taken form the album La grande accumulation
Music by Anadol & Marie Klock
Released by Pingipung, Nov 1 2024
Directed by Utku Önal
§2025
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Gorgonn & Utku Önal Presents:
Six Paths
An extended teaser of the audiovisual project & performance of 'Six Paths' by Gorgonn & Utku Önal, which premiered live at Le Guess Who? 2024, curated by Bo Ningen.
Full Length: 54min 02sec.
§2024
According to Japanese Buddhism, when someone dies they are brought down one of six paths depending on the karma amassed in previous lives. On his full-length debut, 'Six Paths', Gorgonn muses on spiritual destinations, life after death, and more, via dense and futuristic wobbles. The musician presents his work alongside Berlin-based visual artist Utku Önal, whose music videos reinvent the aesthetic rules of horror cinema with new media tools. Here, Gorgonn's daring mesh of techno, dub, and others finds a fitting home in Önal's atmospheric and surreal visual world-building.
"I see the dance floor as an alternative to cinema saloons. This project is shaped by that idea, making an experimental movie based on the album's concept. While the music is the main guide to the atmosphere and feelings, what it resonates on me was a total narrational interpretations. Just like how we dream|nightmare about the daily life events, world politics, to traumatic personal experiences, to occult beliefs." - Utku Önal
Audio recorded live by Marc Broer at Le Guess Who? 2024
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Gorgonn - Life As A Beast
music video
Premiered by Fact Magazine
Official selection MuVi 2024, 70. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
"...The titles of the music videos All the Money (Moor Mother, 2024) and Life As A Beast (Gorgonn, 2023, director: Utku Önal) already give an indication of where things are headed. The clattering ambient industrial noise in Life As A Beast acts as a counterpoint to the alienated protagonists, who are caught, with obligatory contorted expressions, in an animated sci-fi hell in which they are successively wrapped in plastic sheeting by police, trapped in futuristic-looking cars or seem threatened other sorts of doom..."
Capitalist Realism by Sara Rukaj
Taken form the album Six Paths
Music by Gorgonn
Released by SVBKVLT January31, 2023
Directed by Utku Önal
§2023
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Hüma Utku - Dissolution of I (Director´s Cut)
music video
Taken from ''The Psychologist'' released earlier this year on Editions Mego, ''Dissolution of I'' is a destabilising trip in the psyche where one disintegrates components of the self, dissociating from all in its environment. In the music video created by Utku Önal, the audience is taken through an environment where one stands in a dream-like state created by the mind under pressure. A state oscillating between reality, bended reality and hyper-reality.
Taken form the album The Psychologist
Music by Hüma Utku
Released by Editions Mego, on 6 May, 2022
Directed by Utku Önal
§2022
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Cheb Terro vs Dj Die Soon - Underplanet
music video
"A stunning new video for Cheb Terro vs DJ DIE SOON’s single Underplanet – by Berlin-based director Utku Önal – addresses geographic destiny by focusing on those who have to leave their home countries and the circumstances that forced them to embark on a terrifying journey into the unknown. It is not an intentional response to the Ukrainian crisis but a coincidental harmony."
Taken form the album Cheb Terro vs Dj Die Soon
Music by Daisuke Imamura a.k.a. Dj Die Soon
Vocals and lyrics by Rayen Hermassi
Released by Drowned by Locals on 25 March, 2022
Directed by Utku Önal
§2022
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Scotch Rolex feat. Lord Spikeheart - Sniper (Director´s Cut)
music video
Premiered by The Wire magazine
Taken from the album Tewari
Music by Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg)
Vocals by Lord Spikeheart /vocal of Kenyan noise duo Duma
Released by Hakuna Kulala on 28 May, 2021
Directed by Utku Önal & Hiroo Tanaka
Art and VFX Directed by Utku Önal
§2021
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Scotch Rolex feat. Lord Spikeheart - Success
music video
Taken from the album Tewari
Music by Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg)
Vocals by Lord Spikeheart, vocalist of Kenyan noise duo Duma
Released by Hakuna Kulala | Nyege Nyege on 28 May, 2021
Directed by Hiroo Tanaka
Art and VFX Direction by Utku Önal
Edited by Hiroo Tanaka & Utku Önal
Shot by Mantas Kvedaravičius
§2021
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Blawan - Fram
music video
Fram EP
Released on Hessle Audio 013, 2010
Directed by Utku Önal
Voconut Productions
§2010
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Utku Önal works and lives in Berlin. Studied Mathematics and Video&Photography at Istanbul Bilgi University (BA, Full Scholarship)
His work has been presented at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - Sonar Festival, Barcelona - Lunchmeat Festival, Prague - Donau Festival, Krems - Pera Museum, Istanbul - Ars Electronica, Linz - Heart of Noise Festival, Innsbruck - Fiber Festival, Amsterdam - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht - MIRA Digital Arts festival, Barcelona - Dark Mofo, Tasmania among the others.
utkuonal [at] gmail [.] com
studio
Markgrafendamm 18
10245 Ostkreuz
Berlin
GVL-ID: 1609765136
Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH ©2023
Anadol & Marie Klock - Quand le grenier aura pris feuis
music video
Premiered by Kaput Magazine
2nd Jury Prize at MuVi 2025 Awards by 71. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Taken form the album La grande accumulation
Music by Anadol & Marie Klock
Released by Pingipung, Nov 1 2024
Directed by Utku Önal
§2025
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Gorgonn & Utku Önal Presents:
Six Paths
An extended teaser of the audiovisual project & performance of 'Six Paths' by Gorgonn & Utku Önal, which premiered live at Le Guess Who? 2024, curated by Bo Ningen.
Full Length: 54min 02sec.
§2024
According to Japanese Buddhism, when someone dies they are brought down one of six paths depending on the karma amassed in previous lives. On his full-length debut, 'Six Paths', Gorgonn muses on spiritual destinations, life after death, and more, via dense and futuristic wobbles. The musician presents his work alongside Berlin-based visual artist Utku Önal, whose music videos reinvent the aesthetic rules of horror cinema with new media tools. Here, Gorgonn's daring mesh of techno, dub, and others finds a fitting home in Önal's atmospheric and surreal visual world-building.
"I see the dance floor as an alternative to cinema saloons. This project is shaped by that idea, making an experimental movie based on the album's concept. While the music is the main guide to the atmosphere and feelings, what it resonates on me was a total narrational interpretations. Just like how we dream|nightmare about the daily life events, world politics, to traumatic personal experiences, to occult beliefs." - Utku Önal
Audio recorded live by Marc Broer at Le Guess Who? 2024
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Gorgonn - Life As A Beast
music video
Premiered by Fact Magazine
Official selection MuVi 2024, 70. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
"...The titles of the music videos All the Money (Moor Mother, 2024) and Life As A Beast (Gorgonn, 2023, director: Utku Önal) already give an indication of where things are headed. The clattering ambient industrial noise in Life As A Beast acts as a counterpoint to the alienated protagonists, who are caught, with obligatory contorted expressions, in an animated sci-fi hell in which they are successively wrapped in plastic sheeting by police, trapped in futuristic-looking cars or seem threatened other sorts of doom..."
Capitalist Realism by Sara Rukaj
Taken form the album Six Paths
Music by Gorgonn
Released by SVBKVLT January31, 2023
Directed by Utku Önal
§2023
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Hüma Utku - Dissolution of I (Director´s Cut)
music video
Taken from ''The Psychologist'' released earlier this year on Editions Mego, ''Dissolution of I'' is a destabilising trip in the psyche where one disintegrates components of the self, dissociating from all in its environment. In the music video created by Utku Önal, the audience is taken through an environment where one stands in a dream-like state created by the mind under pressure. A state oscillating between reality, bended reality and hyper-reality.
Taken form the album The Psychologist
Music by Hüma Utku
Released by Editions Mego, on 6 May, 2022
Directed by Utku Önal
§2022
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Cheb Terro vs Dj Die Soon - Underplanet
music video
"A stunning new video for Cheb Terro vs DJ DIE SOON’s single Underplanet – by Berlin-based director Utku Önal – addresses geographic destiny by focusing on those who have to leave their home countries and the circumstances that forced them to embark on a terrifying journey into the unknown. It is not an intentional response to the Ukrainian crisis but a coincidental harmony."
Taken form the album Cheb Terro vs Dj Die Soon
Music by Daisuke Imamura a.k.a. Dj Die Soon
Vocals and lyrics by Rayen Hermassi
Released by Drowned by Locals on 25 March, 2022
Directed by Utku Önal
§2022
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Scotch Rolex feat. Lord Spikeheart - Sniper (Director´s Cut)
music video
Premiered by The Wire magazine
Taken from the album Tewari
Music by Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg)
Vocals by Lord Spikeheart /vocal of Kenyan noise duo Duma
Released by Hakuna Kulala on 28 May, 2021
Directed by Utku Önal & Hiroo Tanaka
Art and VFX Directed by Utku Önal
§2021
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Scotch Rolex feat. Lord Spikeheart - Success
music video
Taken from the album Tewari
Music by Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg)
Vocals by Lord Spikeheart, vocalist of Kenyan noise duo Duma
Released by Hakuna Kulala | Nyege Nyege on 28 May, 2021
Directed by Hiroo Tanaka
Art and VFX Direction by Utku Önal
Edited by Hiroo Tanaka & Utku Önal
Shot by Mantas Kvedaravičius
§2021
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Blawan - Fram
music video
Fram EP
Released on Hessle Audio 013, 2010
Directed by Utku Önal
Voconut Productions
§2010
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Utku Önal works and lives in Berlin. Studied Mathematics and Video&Photography at Istanbul Bilgi University (BA, Full Scholarship)
His work has been presented at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - Sonar Festival, Barcelona - Lunchmeat Festival, Prague - Donau Festival, Krems - Pera Museum, Istanbul - Ars Electronica, Linz - Heart of Noise Festival, Innsbruck - Fiber Festival, Amsterdam - Le Guess Who?, Utrecht - MIRA Digital Arts festival, Barcelona - Dark Mofo, Tasmania among the others.
utkuonal [at] gmail [.] com
studio
Markgrafendamm 18
10245 Ostkreuz
Berlin
GVL-ID: 1609765136
Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH ©2023