Arcade Fire - Black Mirror - dir: Olivier Groulx &…

spk, January 24, 2008 at 11:40:26 PM CET

Arcade Fire - Black Mirror - dir: Olivier Groulx & Tracy Maurice

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framescourer, January 24, 2008 at 11:59:04 PM CET

It's not palindromic production so the interaction must be just a gimmick. Either I'm missing something or... well, I must be missing something.

dommy, January 25, 2008 at 12:25:23 AM CET

well that was easily the most fun i've had watching a music video since i got 'making of thriller' for my 9th birthday and my friends and i hid behind the sofa. (thought the style of vintage footage and subject work well.) nice

jesse.ewles, January 25, 2008 at 1:20:10 AM CET

Nice art direction. ;) What's the advantage of turning the instruments off? -j

scudmore, January 25, 2008 at 1:23:30 AM CET

that was absolutely incredible.

bodysong, January 25, 2008 at 2:35:13 AM CET

Green screen videos suck.

glayvin, January 25, 2008 at 4:57:15 AM CET

Gotta give props here..that was quite amazing..The video was a visual masterpiece and pretty sweet 'interactivityness'....

Best vid Ive seen in a few months.

tommito, January 25, 2008 at 6:02:05 AM CET

weeeee
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antdude, January 25, 2008 at 7:30:44 AM CET

Video: www.rorrimkcalb.com

captainmarc22, January 25, 2008 at 10:55:14 AM CET

the video was cool; but goddamn the audio flipping was unbelievably neat. I guess it doesn't hurt that their songs are amazingly produced and layered.

As much as I like the youtube, I wish more bands would experiment with this ish.

quixoticnyc, January 25, 2008 at 1:50:55 PM CET

Arcade Fire are definitely following the lead of other great bands like Radiohead who understand the importance of meshing their music with a world of art around them. This video and the Neon Bible video both really floored me because they are the first music videos I have seen in a long time challenging the format. Both interactive music videos manage to do just that, physically engage us; that's rather brilliant. And then conceptually they're both brilliant and wonderfully executed. Very refreshing to see this kind of stuff.

captainhairy, January 25, 2008 at 3:17:02 PM CET

the video's great.

but to me the "interactive" audio trick is a pointless gimmick.

and its an insult to the art of mixing. This will be forgotten as fast as the "do your own edit" gimmick on the Beastie Boys dvd was forgotten.

framescourer, January 25, 2008 at 3:37:21 PM CET

I don't even think the video's great. On reflection I'm with jesse - nice art direction but the rest has all the content of sales pitch.

johnnyzero, January 27, 2008 at 1:59:04 AM CET

Oh come on that was a fantastic video! Most bands would sell their drummer's sense of rhythm for a video like that. Easily the best thing on antville so far this year.

And it's not like they're pushing the interactive audio thing down your throats, you don't have to press 1 to 6 on your keyboard if you have a moral problem with it, or you're afraid of "insulting" sound mixers everywhere.

It's an amazing vid, and it's entirely up to you whether you choose to dabble with the interactive audio or not, and some people still have a problem??!!

familiar, January 27, 2008 at 2:32:40 AM CET

One of the best videos I've seen in some time.

thomas93, January 29, 2008 at 1:56:38 AM CET

great

robodrug, January 29, 2008 at 2:57:18 AM CET

Immensely watchable clip, excellent art work, but didn't care much for the ending!

progosk, March 16, 2008 at 11:50:12 PM CET

daniel breton's reading of the video.

kayser_sauze, March 21, 2008 at 10:40:19 AM CET

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