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Right, thanks. The phrasing they sent out is, "video directed by Takashi Ito from his award-winning experimental short Zone." So I guess he did the repurposing?

Presumably

Richard Ayoade directs Kim Deal's "Big Ben Beat."

Amusing new Snapped Ankles video, staged as a duet / dialogue between 1970s Conny Plank and Brian Eno.
Smart World

"Get Dumber," PUP and Jeff Rosesnstock, d. Nestor Chumak and Zack Mykula.

"Cro-Magnon Man," Squid, d. Rory Alexander Stewart.

"Psycho Killer," Talking Heads, d. Mike Mills.

People are enjoying Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia's video for Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild," and there's a lot of fun in there, but not near as much fun as there was in their video from last year for A$AP Rocky's "Tailor Swif."

brundlefly wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:55 pm "Psycho Killer," Talking Heads, d. Mike Mills.

It's also new to the channel this month along with Cunningham's All Is Full Of Love, could Criterion be branching out into music videos? Would be nice if the Beastie Boy collection wasn't a one-off, maybe upgrading the Palm Pictures artist collections would be a nice start.

Most of the videos on those Palm Pictures collections were probably only finished in SD, so it would be a massive project to go back and try to upgrade them to contemporary standards. The version of "All Is Full of Love" on the Channel is in SD, and I wouldn't be surprised if its visual effects are only up to SD standards.

YouTube’s ability to randomly recommend me banger music videos from well over a decade ago continues its hot streak with Cinnamon Chasers “Luv Deluxe” (NSFW). You could summarize this one as “Actually, I can’t fix her”

In case you've been watching these from poor quality fan uploads like me, here's some restored to HD 80s videos recently uploaded to Youtube.

The Sisters Of Mercy This Corrosion &
Dominion &
Black Planet

Devo The Truth About De-Evolution &
Satisfaction

Pete Shelley Homosapien

Laurie Anderson Sharkey's Day

The English Beat Too Nice To Talk To &
Mirror In The Bathroom

Ian Dury & The Blockheads I Want To Be Straight

Yazoo Don't Go

Visage Fade To Grey

Ebn Ozn AEIOU and Sometimes Y

Blancmange Living On The Ceiling

Klaus Nomi The Cold Song

David Bowie & Mick Jagger Dancing In The Streets

Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone in Jerskin Fendrix music video “Beth’s Farm”

Ninajirachi “Infohazard” Of a piece with the nostalgic Geocities fetishization of Magdalena Bay but more informed by experimental film methodology, this is a surprisingly effective negative budget music video. The use of flashing imagery turns much of this into a work of animation, and I loved the simplicity of inspiration in how the on screen lyrics are displayed. 100% don’t watch this if you have any epilepsy probs (and also, you might now)

And the Ninajirachi vid made swo’s 2025 list! I thought you’d like this one, swo

Flirting with epilepsy is the only thing that moves me anymore

That sounds like the start of a Bill Callahan song

Lowry_Sam wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 3:23 am David Bowie & Mick Jagger Dancing In The Streets

What psychopath decided to give this the HD treatment? It is one of the worst covers of all time and, and on the embarrassment scale, the dancing is not far off Elaine's dance in Seinfeld.

I’ve always preferred the “silent” version https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?si=Ttt9lC4tP4z75SxQ

domino harvey wrote:That sounds like the start of a Bill Callahan song

Domino, you just made me laugh out loud.

One of the best new music videos I've seen in a while is Rosalia's 'Berghain':
Berghain

At the other end of the scale, I also like the basic-as-fuck single shot video for Sleaford Mods' 'The Good Life':
The Good Life

Not at all the kind of music I expected to hear from Charli xcx.

YouTube wrote:House featuring John Cale from Charli xcx's upcoming album for "Wuthering Heights".

She's doing a concept album that ties into the Emerald Fennell adaptation, apparently. Good for her for doing something completely different after Brat, because really, how can you follow up a phenomenon like that with more of the same?

I'm obsessed with this video for Apple Seed by FootRocket

I guess there’s a good chance everyone here has already seen this given it has 300 million views and is well over a decade old, but the YouTube algorithm recommended me the video for alt-J’s “Breezeblocks” and I think it’s a deceptively simple structural idea that on rewatch shows how impressively the backwards action skillfully functions as misdirection for what’s going on. Also a great ploy for getting views since you’re just about guaranteed to have every viewer want to watch it again to see it play out differently