A steady beat of stadium claps sets the stage for Buck 65’s gravelly voice as he weaves a miscellaneous lyrical list in the first verse of his track, “Superstars Don’t Love.” Simultaneously, Travis Hopkins’ fictional title cards stream forward in a blitz of elegant homage. These 69 individually-crafted title cards salute films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Wild Style, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Royal Tenenbaums, and others, turning Hopkins’ clear enthusiasm for film and typography into a charming panegyric in the style of the masters.

The repressed desire for something more is visually resolved by re-experiencing what you now see. Opening sequences…and the loneliness gets blown away.

An expression of a feeling as real in spirit as the cinematic coordinate of La Nouvelle Vague, Dan Black’s (tip of the U.K.’s Wonky Pop spear) music video for “Symphonies” strides through bunches of title sequences we’ve grown up with. A few of these dawning moments include a Lynchian/Cardiffian lost highway, the neon of Tron, and a Saul Bass speedboat. Black -himself a cross between Ferris Bueller and Sonny Crockett- slides and drives under his lyrics, themselves playing the supporting role of credits. This glorious primal therapy, this dual coronation of sorts, is brought to us by Paris-based Chic & Artistic.

We would just like to add that this study of title sequences en masse becomes coldly, fascinatingly recontextualized. Lopped from the body of the film and gathered as they are sometimes bears us an odd guilt. Work like this, a blowtorch of invention, keeps us on. You too.