The World Inside the Tape: STILLZ’s Barrio Triste

Back when labels were willing to spend on them, music videos served as a legitimate pipeline for visual artists, places for them to cut their teeth on a decent budget before taking that experience into feature filmmaking. Spike Jonze riffed on the blocking in Tsai Ming-liang’s films while making “It’s Oh So Quiet” for Björk, and David Fincher drew inspiration from 1920s Hollywood studio photography for Madonna’s “Vogue.” So it is fascinating to see Colombian-American director STILLZ, whose videography for...