Björk - Declare Independence - Dir. Michel Gondry
Amazing.
EDIT: We had a friedly request by Björk's management asking us not embed this video. It had a wrong aspect ratio and its official release will be tomorrow. Stay tuned (or consult Google ;-)
Thanks, Kris
really fuckin awesome, but doesnt go anywhere. needed something...
That's not the right aspect ratio, btw, unless it's been changed. AOL is debuting this tomorrow.
really cool set-up, but dare i say it is a bit boring overall - too much is revealed too soon. i felt the same way about his latest beck video (great FX, but they start from the very beginning and you get bored..).
this is great... really great.
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meh.
Liked this very very much. Including the song, surprisingly (not enough to make me listen to the new album; I suspect this track is an anomaly). I wrote Bjork off ages ago.
I think they shot the making-of better. Throw some D on that .... please
Ai, you have a point there.
Yikes. I really don’t care for this one.
when the vid started and the overall idea was revealed i was astounded. gondry is a brilliant brilliant man. i must admit, however, that by minute 3 i was looking around the room and wondering what i'd be making myself for dinner. as has already been said, the video blows it wad too early and doesn't go anywhere new with more than 2 minutes left in the song.
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I wasn't bored by it. Although I question the concept of illustrating "Declare Independence" by having everyone jump up and down in unison...
Yeah it works better as an idea than as a video. And i have some minor issues with the camera work. With that said, it is a very very cool idea.
fung: that is part of the intended meaning of the song from what I can tell. Declaring independence by subscribing to ideals that do nothing for individual expression. The video is a fairly literal take on this. I think the fact that the video doesn't pander to the viewer's desire for a big finish, is part of what makes it successful on other levels.
Yeah wow. Has Gondry gone senile? Did he forget somewhere along the line that he was making a music video and not just a dream contraption.
It looks like a documentary on an installation art piece shot on dv.
haha, great! applause...no wait: standing ovations for this one monsieur gondry! and one more sign: !
there are coming some references to my mind, while watching this: brazil, (80ies) machine art, jello biafra and all the other hardcore-performance-stuff (maybe the collaboration with mike patton had some influence on björk), dada and fluxus, diy, jodorowsky...
the guys from mouse on mars stated in an interview that for them (who explored quite some ways in music) in the end it all comes down to energy.
i see this video/music rather heading in this direction. an ass-kicking trip with a big smile.
thank you for this one.
And here I was thinking what ever happened to Alec Empire. He grew boobs, got soft and moved to Iceland.
"It looks like a documentary on an installation art piece shot on dv". That ist what I like about that....
One of the best ideas / videos of this year....
I'm with okapi. Art installation as mv sounds awesome.
But bodysong has a point. It needed one final thought, not a big finish like fam mentions, but a final thought of some kind...
quite disappointing... i don't like the song but thought gondry would make a good video of it. as you say, the idea works well but the video is poor. bad edited and quite simple. it's a shame...
Oliver: "brazil" <-- exactly what I thought, and in the best possible way. Very much in the vein of Gilliam.
Do people remember the section of the documentary on the Gondry directors label DVD with the spinning paint circle machine connected to a piano that Bjork was playing?
It's clearly the same invention-experiment Gondry-ism that is going on here.
this is great. but a shame it is on DV. people are forgetting the lost art of telecine!
parmezan: That was the first thing I thought of. I actually thght it might have been an updated version of the idea, considering they never actually brought the paint/sound gadget to full fruition.
I enjoyed watching the inital spurts of color move through the 'machine'. I kept waiting for the final transformation that never happened, so after a while it felt like I was watching the same thing over and over again.
gondry & björk, they both dont have all cups in the cupboard. i like this.
They ain't all there, he means.
If this was made in the 60's and i had smoked a lot of pot then maybe this would seem good.
I still do quiz but I think I need a kilo'n a half or a bucket of LSD!
Think the the video makes the best of a rather pedestrian Björk
I always found her style at the periphery of my taste Thats not to say she don't come up wiv the goods!
Still pass me sum AK47 bubble cross maaahn!
i'm bugged by the hella-annoying copyrighted encoding of that quicktime file. even with SUPER, i can only get video to translate to another format...the audio hates me. I guess i'll have to figure it out on my own. shakes ineffective fist
hm, wtf is that: qt drm? it's h.264 video and AAC audio inside - vlc re-encodes it (tho it changes the aspect ratio!?!).
Use YAMB to remux from MOV to ISO-Media compliant MP4, then try again.
björk in shanghai: "tibet, tibet - raise your flag!"
