"We Are The People", the brand new video from Empire of the Sun's debut album "Walking On A Dream" Shot on location in the towns of Garcia, Xilitla, and the Icamole Desert in Mexico. Directed by Josh Logue of Mathematic (xy-1.com).

We Are The People

         

Would it be possible to try and bite MGMT's look any harder?

         

you know that there is like nearly 200000 years of the human race and in that time, quipment, there have been people sporting a look that one can describe primitive or shamanistic at many times throughout history and the history of art. your comment is one of the absolute worst examples of some of the absolutely pathetic doucheiness that infests antville. it attempts to take an enormous amount of effort that I doubt you've ever even approached to a reduction of your knowledge of a band that you consider hipper or cooler than this. go fuck yourself. before MGMT there was david bowie, and alejandro jodorowsky, and geisha makeup.

For me, this video was not made in a computer, or in some basement, and showed me sights I have never seen before in a music video, things I don't exactly know how to consciously parse or interperet directly. It shows the world, it's beautifully shot with ballsy backlit HD, it displays a terrain and atmosphere that you don't get to see in videos very often, it's brave and even at the risk of abject failure does something that could be utterly ludicrous. it opens a window on a part of the world i hope i'm lucky enough to get to see but for a moment music and image get me there. It's fucking awesome.

         

No doucheiness intended it was just a comment about the band, not the video.

         

Comparing MGMT to Bowie is grossly insulting. To Bowie.

         

aaron: is this your new years resolution to defend videos at all costs on antville? i think you're taking things a bit too personally. you might think you're being the good guy but you're actually fanning the flames

         

tho crying copycat is trite, and tho the video's technical qualities are evident, this band's unrelenting narcissism does make for less-than transcedental 3-and-a-half minutes. (incidentally: do try a spin of lung's playlist, aaron.)

         

quipment, you suck and your comment was dumb. Nice work Aaron.

         

nevermind the band and what you think of them! i don't work in the music video industry or the short/long feature film industry... i'm just a fan who knows what he likes, and i do have to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this clip... i could get into details on why i liked it, but i am kind of drunk right now so it wouldn't be a good idea, but lay off with the reasons why you may hate the band and focus on why you dislike the video, ummm, constructively, please... ok, thanks.

         

extraordinarily many groups have chosen mexican locations for the videos, gruops like the killers (when you were young) or architecture in helsinki (heart it races)... australian too i'm glad they're doing this

         

Seriously, I can't stop watching this video. Luke Steele has been hinting at music like this in his Sleepy Jackson releases, but this stuff is ultra-surreal. The chorus is amazing and the rain forest scenery fits perfectly.

Their last video is similar, shot in Shanghai, China, but this one blows that clip away.

         

This concept seems almost identical to another recent australian video The Grates 'Aw Yeah'. Singer/band dances around in a day of the dead celebration but is revealed to be actually dead at the end?

Mexican day of the dead transcendentalism? Is this the new fad for Australian directors?

         

The second holiday for the band and josh in two outings! Nicely shot. Great location great colour. The narcissistic performance is a drag and a turn off tho. Who do they think they are Daniel Day Lewis?

         

the idiocy continues. i watched that grates clip and the two seem like they're from another planet. Besides, I believe the Grates stole their idea from this obviously. What is it with you people who are suffering from one upmanship style aphopenia? Is the point of watching antville to insist that everything is a rip off of everything else?

On the other hand, prog and wing at least say something constructive in their criticisms. I don't think they're being narcissistic at all though. When I first saw the Walking on a Dream clip I didn't know whether to laugh at them or love them for being so barmy. Which I think is the point. They're embracing being these sort of characters with such earnestness there's no irony involved, which means there's a chance that it is totally ludicrous. Willing to fail is always a good thing in my book.

         

This video is pretty damned good and I enjoyed the performances. They didn't feel narcissistic to me at all. I'd argue more accurate adjectives are risky, or character-driven, or caricaturish or some such. But narcissism doesn't really come into it for me.

Fabulous locations though and, like it was mentioned earlier, I saw interesting things in this video that I might never have seen otherwise. If nothing else that should be part and parcel of all good promo-making.

K

         

I agree with comments like fabulous location, nicely shot, nice colours etc but there is something missing with this video. It's as if, like their last video that the idea is all about the location. ie lets put the two 'characters' in a new 'exotic' location take a camera and see what happens. Then we will piece it together in the edit.

Its almost like music video 101 for bigger budget commercial directors but somehow scaled for a smaller indie budget here. Its where the look and style of the video is more important than say story, concept or technique.

I can't say its one of the most interesting videos I've seen recently but it was pleasant to view. Almost like a hipster travel documentary.

         

larger mov smaller mov shot on Red anamorphic HD The Grates' Aw Yeah directed by Krozm: mov=mov, vimeo

         

If anyone got this "large MOV File" .. can you please upload it to rapidshare.com or some other server. because the download from xy-1.com is slow as hell. It would take 4 hours.

         

wow

this is beautiful

loved it.

         

Of course! I had a flashback while watching this video, I recognized the place where it was shot... been there a couple of times to a rave, and I gotta tell you, its very enigmatic....